Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of the medieval life and the chaos of the individualistic spirit of the renaissance. There is an antithesis between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you think you can have them both...
...There is an inherent antithesis between the unity of medieval life and chaos of the individualistic spirit of the Renaissance. There is an antitheses between a closed system of coherent culture and a system of rampant individualism, between dogma and free inquiry; you may have the one or the other. But you are chasing rainbows if you think you can have them both...
...true spirit of democracy, it seems to me, is founded on the golden mean between destructive criticism on the one hand and complacent dogma on the other...
Among those principles, which contribute to what he described as "the golden mean between destructive criticism and complacent dogma," the President included the civil liberties which are protected by the Bill of Rights, the "political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues," and the protection of minority rights...
...France it was a brand-new dogma embroidered with brand-new catchwords and justified by brand-new reasoning. Rousseau's "natural equality of men," for which Frenchmen once fought a bloody revolution, would be discarded for a "social hierarchy" under which rich & poor, high & low, would have equal opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman...