Famous quotes containing the words world, war, forced and/or abdication:
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it—benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their “good” subjects and punishment to their “bad” ones, who are amused at the “cleverness” of children and annoyed by their “stupidities.””
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“To be forced to refuse a gift merely because it was not offered in the right way embitters us toward the giver.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small—
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)