“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage was good because it was a sign of selflessness, that ignorance was bad because fear sprang… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“The India of the picture had never existed outside its gilt frame, and the emotions the picture was meant to conjure up were not much more than smugly pious. And yet now, as always, there was a feeling somewhere in… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up, release us… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side.… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Such a marvelous opportunity wasted. I mean for us, by us. Indians feel it too, don’t they? I mean, in spite of the proud… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
