Quote

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
Favors
Useless
Resolutions
Pass
Vegetarianism
Remains
Wolf
Opinion
Vegetarian
Different
Sheep
Resolution
Favor

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
William Ralph Inge
Image
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge
Image
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
William Ralph Inge
Image
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
Image
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
William Ralph Inge