Society and the World

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

It’s not the men in my life that counts—it’s the life in my men.

I look upon all the world as my parish.

The Gospel of Christ knows of no religion but social; no holiness but social holiness.

The war that will end war.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

’Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden; the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die

I who have cursed

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it’s a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their colour.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Quoi que vous fassiez, écrasez l’infâme, et aimez qui vous aime.

God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.