Society and the World

I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

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.

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

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

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.