Moral Quote by William Hurrell Mallock

“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.” quote by William Hurrell Mallock — Download Open image

“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”

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

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Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

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“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.”

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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…

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“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…

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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…

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Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our…

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“But will you be able to say what is right and what is wrong any longer, if you don’t know for whom anything is…

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

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“Some will be always strong, and some will be always weak; and though, if there is no God, no divine and fatherly source of…

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