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Quotes from The End of an Age, and Other Essays — William Ralph Inge

1860–1954 England

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The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

The End of an Age, and Other Essays (1948)

Racialism is a superstitious variety of nationalism. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

The End of an Age, and Other Essays (1948)

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

The End of an Age, and Other Essays (1948)

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