There is no nonsense so gross that society will no... -Robertson Davies

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies , Novelist
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Robertson Davies Quotes to Explore

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually re...
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor....
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving....
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity....
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me....

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy....
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries....
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership...
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of ...
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society....
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own sufferi...
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day....
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere....
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in ...
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society....