It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in…

- Richard M. Weaver

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in…

- Richard M. Weaver

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the anc…

- Richard M. Weaver

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their app…

- Richard M. Weaver

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

- Richard M. Weaver

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive …

- Richard M. Weaver

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

- Richard M. Weaver

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of norma…

- Richard M. Weaver

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

- Richard M. Weaver