William Ralph Inge

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”

“True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.”

“The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.”

“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”

“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”

“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.”

“To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.”

“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”