Richard M. Weaver Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Southern, Victory

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

• [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Wish, Faults

• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Men, Order

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

• Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Guiding Principles, Gentleman

• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Principles, Prejudice

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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