Dean Inge quotes
Oct. 19th, 2011 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anglomedvedSome quotes, very much in a certain English tradition, by Dean Inge (see earlier posting), one of the best minds in the English church in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century (he lived from 1860 to 1954):
- A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
- Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
- We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
- A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
- Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
- We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
