6 Quotes by Katharine Burdekin

They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.

You can't really trust any man who is religious. If your interests conflict with the religion the man breaks his word and betrays you and thinks he's right to do so.

If you look with envy or longing or inferiority-feeling at any other kind of life, you have lost your life, lost your Self.

The human values of this world are masculine. There are no feminine values because there are no women.

Unshakable, impregnable Empire has always been the dream of virile nations, and now at last it's turned into a nightmare reality. A monster that is killing us.

Bir erkek, fil ya da tavşan olmak istemez. Düşünebilseydi fil de bir tavşan ya da bir erkek olmak istemezdi. Kendisi olmak isterdi çünkü dünyadaki en iyi şeyin kendisi olduğuna inanırdı. Bir bakıma kendisinin dünya ve tüm bir hayat olduğuna. Kendiniz olduğunuz hayat saf hayattır. Başka bir hayata imrenerek, özlemle bakıyorsanız, hayatınızı, kendinizi kaybetmişsiniz demektir.