William Shawcross famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Experience is never at bargain price.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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