Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
— Anonymous
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
— Olaf Stapledon
My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.
— Olaf Stapledon
Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.
— Olaf Stapledon
For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.
— Olaf Stapledon
Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.
— Olaf Stapledon
We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help.
— John Tesh
Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.
— Olaf Stapledon
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
— Olaf Stapledon
I was a disembodied, wandering view-point.
— Olaf Stapledon
Socrates held up his hands, wiggling his fingers. God gave me these hands to change the world, one child at a time.
— Red Phoenix
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
— Dhani Harrison
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
— Olaf Stapledon
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
— Anthony Doerr
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
— Olaf Stapledon
But the very success which had intoxicated them rendered them also too complacent to learn from less prosperous competitors.
— Olaf Stapledon
Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.
— Olaf Stapledon
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
— Olaf Stapledon
Men with sound eyes need not concern themselves with the arguments of blind men to prove that seeing cannot occur.
— Olaf Stapledon
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.
— Khaled Hosseini
Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.
— Olaf Stapledon
It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.
— Olaf Stapledon
I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.
— Olaf Stapledon
How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?
— Olaf Stapledon
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.
— Olaf Stapledon
A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
— Olaf Stapledon
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
— Olaf Stapledon
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
— Olaf Stapledon
In a sick world even the hale are sick.
— Olaf Stapledon
