Logo
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. Peo

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. – C. S. Lewis

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
War
category

Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Plato

Category:
War

You might hold an ethical position that its wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons – to reduce casualties, perhaps – and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a good outcome. – Peter Singer

Category:
War

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
War

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Category:
War

Random Quotes

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle. – Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851

Category:
Needlework

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. – Andrew Greeley

Category:
Religion

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. – Theodore Roethke

Category:
Nature

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Age