The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
More Quotes from Georges Bernanos:
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.Georges Bernanos
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Georges Bernanos
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to defin
Georges Bernanos
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.C. P. Scott
I've always gotten along with guys better.
Stacie Orrico
Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.
Dennis Moore