T.H. White, The Once And Future King Quotes
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.
So Merlyn sent you to me, " said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you two things -- to dig, and love your home. These are the true end of philosophy.
Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.
