Author Nationality

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Nationality : British

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Nationality : British

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Nationality : British

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Nationality : British

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Nationality : British

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Nationality : British

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

Nationality : British

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Nationality : British

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Nationality : British

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Nationality : British