Robert Hunter (author): Quotes about men

“The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 90
Context: The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause. Men may write and agitate, they may scream never so shrilly about the wrongs of the world, but when they go forth to fight single-handed and to die for what they preach, they have at least earned the right to demand of society an inquiry.

Men , World

“When principles will not work out in practice and the obstructions confronting men are too great, even the most faithful give way. And this”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 63
Context: When principles will not work out in practice and the obstructions confronting men are too great, even the most faithful give way. And this, so far as we know, is what happened to every Tolstoyan.

Men , Faith , Way

“In the country, Tolstoy could still see the possibility of men living a Christian life; in the cities he saw no such possibility. Cities had therefore to be uprooted and destroyed. The people had to get back to the soil.”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 78
Context: Tolstoy deplored all the modern tendencies toward immense congregations of people in limited areas, on the ground that they were making more and more impossible the truly Christian life. In cities the rich find little restraint to their lusts, while the lusts of the poor are greater there than in the country, and they satisfy them up to the limit of their means. In the country, Tolstoy could still see the possibility of men living a Christian life; in the cities he saw no such possibility. Cities had therefore to be uprooted and destroyed. The people had to get back to the soil.

Life , Men , People , Country

“He [Tolstoy] could see little good in the clergy, while he utterly condemned the military, the rulers of the earth, the judges, the capitalists, the landlords, the merchants, the jailers, the functionaries. He assailed modern art and classed artists with scientists and ministers as the lackeys of a degenerate and parasitic class of wealthy men. Political economists he considered as retainers of the same class and their product as the throwing of dust in the eyes of those who seek for a way out of our unhappy social conditions.”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 77

Men , Art , Way

“As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 6

Men

“Isaiah prophesied the coming of a revolution which would make men more precious than gold, and that a new nation would arise, wherein everyone should help his neighbor.”

Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 85