All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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