Society and the World

No man is an Island, entire of it self.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Take me to you, imprison me, for I

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,

New philosophy calls all in doubt.

Never complain and never explain.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

All power is a trust.

The East is a career.

‘Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.’ ‘You speak of—’ said Egremont, hesitatingly, ‘ THE RICH AND THE POOR. ’

It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatism—an unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.

With words we govern men.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Justice is truth in action.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

The Continent will [not] suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.