Quotations

"Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?" Voltaire's Candide

“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life… This is the real crisis.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"When you return to your homes, when you return to your counties and your cities, you must tell to all those whom you can influence that the time is at hand, that, at least, it cannot be far distant, when England will have to decide between national and cosmopolitan principles. The issue is not a mean one. It is whether you will be content to be a comfortable England, modelled and moulded upon continental principles and meeting in due course an inevitable fate, or whether you will be a great country...." Disraeli, in his famous speech in 1872 at the Crystal Palace.