Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things looked pretty bleak in Communism's domains. In Budapest, you must not cry. In Moscow, you must not laugh except at prescribed subjects. All you could do was to shut...
...society can endure only if its members agree on a body of essential principles and purposes. In a free society, the agreement cannot be forced; but it must be present nonetheless. For centuries, Western man believed in the Natural Moral Law as expounded by Aristotle, Aquinas, Blackstone. This law was found neither in legislation nor divine revelation (although it posits the existence of God); it is achieved by examining human nature and reaching legal rules based on the findings. In practice, the most notable expression of Natural Moral Law was, and is, the English common law. Under the acceptance...
...began to look for new orders. One consequence was the rise of what McGuire calls the Monstrous State, which "must enforce order when we no longer discipline ourselves." But nationalism only bloodily compounded the disorder in the Western World. Here was the great moral vacuum which Karl Marx sought to fill with his murky and monstrous new faith...
...wealth or war, though McGuire thinks all three may have to be applied as intermediate measures. The West can stand against Communism only if it will put its own house in order-an order that will end the insane fissions of industrial civilization. The West's moral community must be renewed...
...Somehow," McGuire pleads, "we must come to understand that morality is really essential to the solution of major problems. Community cannot be founded on negatives: on fear or some temporary alignment . . . Man, even in his work, does not live by bread alone . . . His nature is not wholly filled or expressed in the production and consumption of bread and beer and radio sets and patent medicines. He has not his answer or his end in these. They cannot ease his discontent...