D v Hildebrand

One succinct observation by Dietrich von Hildebrand quoted in Pope John’s Council by Michael Davies: “The innovators would replace holy intimacy with Christ by an unbecoming familiarity".

Manning

So, in the face of this contradiction between his maximalism and his dismay at the pope’s ruling, he had no choice but to adopt Newman’s more minimalist interpretation. “The Decree of Leo XIII was absolutely true, just, and useful,” Manning said in painful embarrassment. “But in the abstract. The condition of Ireland is abnormal. The Decree contemplates facts which do not exist....Pontiffs have no infallibility in the world of facts, except only dogmatic. The [rent strike] is not a dogmatic fact, and it is one thing to declare that all legal agreements are binding, and another to say that all agreements in Ireland are legal.”

Dostotevsky

The importance of social "feeling" is pointed out in "The Devils" (or "The Possessed") by Dostoyevsky, which is considered a prophecy of the 1917 Russian Revolution, written in 1871. In it Peter Verkhovensky states: "The next powerful force is, of course, sentimentality. You know, socialism among us spreads chiefly because of sentimentality [....] And well, finally, the main force—the cement that holds everything together—is their being ashamed of possessing an opinion of their own [....] I tell you they'll go through fire for me. All I have to do is to raise my voice and tell them that they are not sufficiently 'liberal'" (p. 387, in the Penguin Classics edition).

Cardinal Pell

Modern liberalism has strong totalitarian tendencies. Institutions and associations, it implies, exist only with the permission of the state, and, to exist lawfully, they must abide the dictates or norms of the state.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L Sayers once wrote: “Tolerance, which in hell is called despair, is the sin which believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, loves nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and only remains alive because there is nothing it would die for.”

Bp. Sheen

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance—it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

Orwell

During the past twenty-five years the activities of what are called “intellectuals” have been largely mischievous. I do not think it an exaggeration to say that if the “intellectuals” had done their work a little more thoroughly, Britain would have surrendered in 1940.