Quote by Virginia Woolf
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

Other quotes by Virginia Woolf

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. – Virginia Woolf

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Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.” – Carl Sandburg

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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