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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.