"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

God, Nation, Race, Rest

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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

Explore more quotes by Laurence Housman

"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."

Books, Reform, Right, World

"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."

Books, Letters, World

"Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."

Time, Trust, Hope, Punishment

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."

May, Old

"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."

Life, Character, Pursuit, Sun

"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."

War,

"The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved."

Family, July, Man, Name

"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."

Experience, Appreciation, Audiences, Feet

"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."

Home, Treatment

"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."

Love, Being, Force, Motive

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

God, Humor, Performance, Being

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,