Society and the World

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

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

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.

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 life of the law has not been logic but experience.

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

 

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

The board is set; the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time. J. R. R.

 

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. J. R. R.

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? E. M.

 

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. E. M.

 

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

 

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Freedom is a clear conscience.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R.