Rather Quotes

Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress.

I’d rather be David Ladd’s father than Alan Ladd any day.

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

Women want total freedom or rather – to call things by their names – total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with?

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.