Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
JOHN GALSWORTHY