Frases de Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray foi um britânico nascido na Austrália, erudito clássico e intelectual público, com conexões em muitas esferas. Ele foi um notável estudioso da língua e da cultura da Grécia Antiga, talvez a maior autoridade da primeira metade do século XX. Ele é a base para o personagem de Adolphus Cusins ​​na peça de seu amigo George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara.

Ele foi um humanista proeminente e serviu como Presidente da União Ética de 1929-1930 e foi um delegado no Congresso Humanista Mundial inaugural em 1952, que estabeleceu a Humanistas Internacional. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Janeiro 1866 – 20. Maio 1957
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Gilbert Murray frases e citações

“A vida, a liberdade e a felicidade do homem comum, em toda parte do mundo, estão à mercê absoluta de umas poucas pessoas, as quais ele nunca viu, envolvidas em complicadas querelas, sobre as quais ele nunca ouviu falar.”

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy ofa few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
The League of Nations and the Democratic Idea - Página 4, Gilbert Murray - Oxford University Press, 1918

Gilbert Murray: Frases em inglês

“The real difficulty of the situation lies in the practical working of the coercion. Let it be laid down that the League as a whole will take the necessary action, economic or military. Well and good; but the League is not a military or economic unit and possesses no central executive. It is a society of independent sovereign states, their independence somewhat modified by treaty obligations and a habit of regular conference, but none the less real. I doubt whether the League as a League could declare war or wage war. The force would have to be supplied by each state separately, of its own deliberate will. ... One cannot expect Siam or Canada to mobilize because one Balkan state attacks another. And if the duty is not incumbent on all members, who is to decide what members are to undertake it? The Council has no absolute authority. No nation will be eager to subject itself to the strain and sacrifice of coercive action unless its own interests are sharply involved. But the question is whether, in a world that increasingly detests war and mistrusts force as a instrument of international policy, the various national Parliaments or Governments will in general have sufficient loyalty to the League, sufficient public spirit and sense of reality, to be ready to face the prospects of war not in defence of their own frontiers or immediate national interests, but simply to maintain the peace of the world.”

The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929), p. 91

“This service of civilization is our true work; the occupation that gives meaning to life. We need peace, inward and outward, because peace leaves us free to attend to it; while war—or, indeed, any violent hatred—interrupts and wrecks and perverts.”

1920s, The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future (1929)
Fonte: "Peace and Strife as Elements in Life: The Ideal of "“Unhindered Activity”", p. 39