“Knights ought to be humble among their friends, proud and bold against their foes, tender and merciful towards those who need assistance, cruel avengers against their enemies, and pleasant and amiable with all others.”
Geoffroi De Charny
“Our country is not a thing of mere physical locality. It consists, in large measure, in the ancient order into which we are born... The place that determines our duty to our country is a social, civil relation.”
Edmund Burke
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; & most good men now can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish”
"You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words."
— C.S. Lewis
“It’s not that you wish to give offence. But you are up against people who are expert in taking it, who have cultivated the art of taking offence over many years & who are never more delighted than when some innocent man falls into the trap of speaking incorrectly”
Roger Scruton