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Quotes from On Compromise — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

1838–1923 England

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The intelligence is not free in the presence of a mortal fear lest its conclusions should trouble soft tranquillity of spirit.

On Compromise (1908)

The political spirit is the great force in throwing love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

On Compromise (1908)

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

On Compromise (1874)

Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.

On Compromise (1874)

They who tamper with veracity, from whatever motive, are tampering with the vital force of human progress. Our comfort and the delight of the religious imagination are no better than forms of self-indulgence, when they are secured at the cost of that love of truth on which, more than on anything else, the increase of light and happiness among men must depend.

On Compromise (1908)

Theology has borrowed, and coloured for her own use, the principles which were first brought into vogue in politics. If in the one field it is the fashion to consider convenience first and truth second, in the other there is a corresponding fashion of placing truth second and emotional comfort first.

On Compromise (1908)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.