How to Win the Culture War Quotes

“America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“Love makes more waves than hate. Wicked men will hate and fear you more for loving them than for hating them. They will quickly forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right.
Saints always go into the ghettos, especially the moral ghettos. They make waves. Moses made waves. Jesus made waves. Muhammad made waves. The waves make the garbage come to the surface, and the waves of garbage often drown the saints and make them martyrs, white corpuscles that give themselves up to fight an infection. Saints are society's white corpuscles, society's saviors. If nobody wants to crucify you, you're not doing your job. Or else your job isn't his work.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“One study showed that German soldiers’ willingness to participate in Hitler’s holocaust—not just to approve it but to perform actual torture on prisoners—was directly proportionate to their level of education. In America it’s the same: approval of their holocaust is directly proportionate to how much education they’ve had. In our schools, of course. The joke is that they still think they’re their schools. And they keep their kids in because they’re more concerned about saving their society’s schools than about saving their children’s souls.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis

“The fifties were far from utopia, but we all know they were significantly happier than today. At this point someone will respond by quoting the ultimate law of life: "Ah, but you can't turn back the clock. You can't go home again. You can't stop progress." Yes, you can. This 'ultimate law' is a lie. ...We can stop this false god Progress. But instead we have stopped real progress. Real progress means getting closer to our goal. And the goal of every human being is happiness. Whatever we do, we do to obtain some kind of happiness. And since we are no longer in "happy days," it logically follows that we have stopped progressing, by the most universal definition of "progress" - progress towards happiness. We have regressed.”
― Peter Kreeft, How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis