Society and the World

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

 

Die, but do not retreat.

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

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

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.

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

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 

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.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

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.

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

 

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

 

The greater man the greater courtesy.

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

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

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.

 

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

 

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

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.