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Maude Royden was a prominent figure in the early 20th century, known for her work in social reform and women's rights. She was an advocate for peace and was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.

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“The corruption of the best is the worst.”

Evil Worst Corruption Latin

Book:Sex and Common-sense

Source: Sex and Common-sense

“The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.”

People War Play Wish Fear Politician Importance Factors Panic Overlooked Stampede

Author:Maude Royden

“There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.”

People World Together America Choices Heaven Sides Hell This World Moon Let Me Graves Here And Now Heaven And Hell

Author:Maude Royden

“The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.”

Way God Law Religion Break

Author:Maude Royden

“It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.”

World Sometimes Seems Science Hell Garden Very Good Imitation Eden Amen Garden Of Eden

Author:Maude Royden

“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”

Humans Has Beens Facts Spirit Suffering Sex Causes Subjects Human Nature Fit Waste Jokes Shame Instinct Silly Treated Expenses Misuse

Book:Sex and Common-sense

Source: Sex and Common-sense

“War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.”

Way May Mean Ideas War Clear Ideals Claims Setting Settings Constructs Wrong Ideas

Author:Maude Royden

“We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.”

Law Break

Author:Maude Royden

“It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.”

Men Spiritual Found Christ Differences Justice Teaching Diversity Men And Women Ideals Social Justice Spheres Originality

Author:Maude Royden

“Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.”

Inspirational Eternal

Author:Maude Royden

“When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.”

Enough Left

Author:Maude Royden

“If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Women Dear Seventies Seventeen Old Lady

Author:Maude Royden

“The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.”

Should Church Prayer Party Path Progress Conservative Satisfied Conservative Party

Author:Maude Royden

About the Author

Born: November 23, 1876
Died: July 30, 1956
Known for: Author
Quotes: 13

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