#on

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#before #brutal #contribution #defeat #fascism

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#british government #chaos #disorder #expect #expressly

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#changing #contempt #eventually #expanding #find

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ceased #constitute #hostility #means #must

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#enough #foundation #love #love is #much

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#evenings #first #know #long #money

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#another #conform #copying #defying #how

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diseases #having #health #neighbors #same