William Woodruff famous quotes

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
-- William Woodruff

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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.