Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.