“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
― Beyond This Horizon
― Beyond This Horizon
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”
― Civilisation
― Civilisation
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