Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: Even if the days of 1928 and early 1929 could be brought back again, the economic situation would be utterly indefensible on moral grounds. The greedy scramble for private gain and special privilege, the gambling spirit and the ruthless determination to gain wealth by means fair and foul, the callous indifference to how the other half lived or at most the throwing of a few crumbs of philanthropy, the bitter exploitation of the weak and the brutal suppression of the workers as they attempted to organize in defense of their minimum rights, the cruel assumption that there must always be a wide gulf between the rich and the poor, the willingness to send unnumbered victims to their doom on the battlefield in defense of vested interests—all these and countless other evils are inherent in the economic order which held sway in 1929. God forbid that we should have any desire to return to that living hell!
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
"The Tosh Horse," The New Statesman (1925); later included in Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928), ch. 11
John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge
Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1871.
“God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.”
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Reeves v. Buttler (1715), Gilbert, Eq. Ca. 196; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 137.
John Buchan book The Path of the King
Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", II
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Progress In Religion (2000)
Context: I have five minutes left to give you a message to take home. The message is simple. "God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world". This was said by Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science, almost four hundred years ago. Bacon was the smartest man of his time, with the possible exception of William Shakespeare.
“From God we have come and to God we must return.”
Omar Mukhtar (1858–1931) Libyan resistance leader
Response after receiving the sentence of death.
Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)
George Müller (1805–1898) German-English clergyman
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative
