32 quotes found
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
“If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.”
“It is good to put your life in other people's hands.”
“Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.”
“It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.”
“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But...”
“The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”
“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
“There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked...”
“When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?”
“War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.”
“It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”
“Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart.But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew half as tall again, stood up as stiff as a poker, closed its eyes so that there was only the sma...”
“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”
“Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.”
“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil...”
“Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power o...”
“The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...”
“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may ...”
“It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
“Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something whic...”
