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Famous Quotes
Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
- Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
- The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
- The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
- Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
- To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
- True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
- We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
- Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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