Arthur Shearly Cripps quotes

Arthur Shearly Cripps quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.”
-- Arthur Shearly Cripps

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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
“Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.”
“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”
“No one man is superior to the game.”
“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.”

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