Famous quotes containing the words catholic, peace, traditions, era and/or crusades:
“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have to travel with their backs to the engine. Peace can have but few corners softly padded enough for such sensitives.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.”
—J.G. (John Gabriel)