Leonard Woolf famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
-- Leonard Woolf

#Men #Effort #Barbarians
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
-- Leonard Woolf

#Men #Class #Politics
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
-- Leonard Woolf

#People #Painful #Dentist
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
-- Leonard Woolf

#Self #Musical #Records
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
-- Leonard Woolf

#Moon #Desire
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
-- Leonard Woolf

#Stupidity #Letters #Faces
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
-- Leonard Woolf

#Giving #Portraits #Diaries

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.

Leonard Woolf famous quotes

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