Society and the World

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.

They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one.

They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

 

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

 

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

 

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

 

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R.

 

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Die, but do not retreat.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. J. R. R.

 

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Yet such is off the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. J. R.

 

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R.

 

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.