Inspirational Quotes by William Motter Inge (American Playwright)

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Society

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Aging, Age

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Opinions, Opinion

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Eating

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Peace, Vegetarianism

We shall have to fight the politician, who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Politics

There are no rewards or punishments—only consequences.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Consequences

To seek for the truth, for the sake of knowing the truth, is one of the noblest objects a man can live for.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Truth

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Patriotism

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Experience

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Nation, Nationalism

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Judges, Judgment, Judging

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Prayer

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Books, Literature

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Science

Such as men themselves are, such will God appear to them to be; and such as God appears to them to be, such will they show themselves in their dealings with their fellow men.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Religion

Individuals are occasionally guided by reason, crowds never.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Public

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Civilization

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
—William Motter Inge
Topics: Faith

Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
—William Motter Inge

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