Edward M. Forster Quotes

Ho can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Unless we remember, we cannot understand.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -- it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

I distrust great men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood, too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Two cheers for Democracy: one, because it admits variety and two, because it permits criticism.

One always tends to over-praise a long book, because one has got through it.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. E.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.