Everyone realises how far scientific knowledge has outstripped human virtue.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 7 November 1945

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle · Politics, V, 2

To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Rebecca Solnit · The source reads: “If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason—its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” · Storming the Gates of Paradise (2007)

The map appears to us more real than the land.

D. H. Lawrence · The source reads: “The map appears to us more real than the land. Short sighted almost to blindness, we [pore] over the chart, map our journeys and confirm them: and we cannot see life itself giving us the lie the whole time.” · Study of Thomas Hardy (1914)

“Everyone realises how far scientific knowledge has outstripped human virtue.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

“The map appears to us more real than the land.”

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