Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Quote by E M Forster

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

No one is India.

No one is India.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...