275 quotes found
“It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.”
“Morire biologicamente, il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo gi ora.”
“But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagination, first and most; I have made knowledge, k...”
“Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people are capable of acquiring new ideas of political ...”
“A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses.”
“I wait in fear, as the shadows draw near, spreading over the sky, will I live or die?”
“But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these people would have us believe, that a man is mo...”
“Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldnt one be free? Really free? Guarding ones freedom, wasnt freedom at all. Why cou...”
“And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means if indeed he was a means to an end. The person she wanted, the person she had always wanted was herself. Could Mr....”
“She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is the central issue in the emancipation of women...”
“The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of wom...”
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
“[A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the world, that evil walks abroad and dangers, and petty insults more irritating t...”
“It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and medicines take the place of beneficial relics and images among the Protestant peoples of Christen...”
“They ought not to have let things come to this," he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why "They" were nor what "This" was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hat...”
“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.”
“The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, w...”
“Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the planet and the socialisation of its elementary needs, and pitted against that was the fact that ev...”
“The essential question was always "Who are these fellows who give us orders? By what warrant? And how do we benefit and how does the world benefit? But they are doing no good to anyone, no real goo...”
