English - Clergyman | June 6, 1860 - February 26, 1954
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Inge
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
PlagiarismOriginality
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.
ReligionAnimalEnvironmentalRest
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
EducationKnowledgeFactsValuesAim
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
OpinionWolfSheepResolutionsPass
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
BeautifulImaginationTryingNobody
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
HappinessHappyPeopleBeing Happy
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
OptimismChristianSystemPessimist
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
PatriotismSocietyHatredNation
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
SoulThoughtsColorLeisureDyed
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
GamblingDiseaseCivilizedBarbarians
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
GodManDirectionKnowPoorRight
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