Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
-
-
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
The French cook; we open tins.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY -
Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY