William Hurrell Mallock famous quotes

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Struggle #Political #Moral

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Moving #Wind #Clouds

Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Expression #Landscape #Able

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Men #Wish #Honest

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Islands #Simplicity #Aliens

Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Dream #Expression #Evil

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Past #Atheism #May

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.
-- William Hurrell Mallock

#Thinking #Encounters #Might

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Money has no moral opinions.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.