Logo
Quote by Anthony Burgess
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much o

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

Other quotes by Anthony Burgess

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Language
Author
Anthony Burgess
Read Quote

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Peace
Author
Anthony Burgess
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Violence
category

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. – George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"

Category:
Violence

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Violence

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Violence

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

Category:
Violence

Random Quotes

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart… good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, its done. – John Mayer

Category:
good

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. – Terry Waite

Category:
Terrorism

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. – Sarojini Naidu

Category:
Courage

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category:
Peace