“In all of the countries which have undergone revolution, the heirs of the old chivalric order have passed out of power, and their place has been taken by men without belief in any standards, or men with a frank contempt for all restraints that stand in the way of immediate results.
This is a large part of the price we have paid for our rage against traditionalism and ‘mediaeval backwardness.’...Those who throw aside the traditions of civilized self-restraint are traveling a road at the end of which lies nihilism.”
— Richard Weaver; Southern Essays
This is a large part of the price we have paid for our rage against traditionalism and ‘mediaeval backwardness.’...Those who throw aside the traditions of civilized self-restraint are traveling a road at the end of which lies nihilism.”
— Richard Weaver; Southern Essays