« May 27, 2017 | Main | May 29, 2017 »

Sunday May 28, 2017

All the great creative actions, all the decent human relations, occur during the intervals when force has not managed to come to the front. These intervals are what matter. I want them to be as frequent and as lengthy as possible, and I call them "civilization”

—E. M. Forster
   British writer (1879-1970)



Source: ”What I Believe,” essay published in The Nation July 16, 1938






copyright©2024 Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Jr. All rights reserved.