Quotes About Bernanos

Le sacrifice de l'Homme à l'Humanité, de l'Humanité au Progrès, pour aboutir ridiculement au sacrifice du progrès lui-même à la dictature de l'Économique, tel fut le crime auquel restera toujours attaché le mot de la Démocratie, forme bourgeoise de la Révolution.

You understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization unless you first admit that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life.

you find them wreathed in knowing deprecating smiles; they beg you to spare them.

hunger now seemed a prolongation of physical well-being, a delicious drowsiness.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.