Eden Phillpotts said this quote

“ Why are you all wasting human labour and the world’s wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for half a million years and more have been endowed with reason – conscious beings who discovered a better way long centuries ago? ”

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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

~ Eden Phillpotts

You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution, you have not kept faith with yourselves, you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers.

~ Eden Phillpotts

Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?

~ Eden Phillpotts

To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.

~ Eden Phillpotts