Charles Eliot Norton Quotes

• If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Paz, guerra, defensa

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• The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Selfish, Taken, Unique

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Religious, Loss, Maturity

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Courage, Freedom, Fall

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Giving Up, Atheism, May

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• Nunca hubo una buena guerra", dijo Franklin. "Ciertamente ha habido muchas guerras en las que un buen hombre debe tomar parte, y tomar parte con grave alegría de morir si es necesario, un sacrificio voluntario, agradecido de dar la vida por lo que es más querido que la vida, y feliz de que incluso por la muerte en la guerra está sirviendo a la causa de la paz. Pero si se emprende una guerra con el fin más justo, antes de que los recursos de la paz se hayan probado y demostrado vanos para asegurarla, esa guerra no tiene defensa, es un crimen nacional.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Guerra, Sacrificio, Hombres

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Men, Good Man, Alive

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• It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Atheism, Doe, Topics

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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