Lost Sovereignty Fully

Famous quotes containing the words lost, sovereignty and/or fully:

“We’d like to fight but we fear defeat,
We’d like to work but we’re feeling too weak,
We’d like to be sick but we’d get the sack,
We’d like to behave, we’d like to believe,
We’d like to love, but we’ve lost the knack.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)