Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)