"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
― E. M. Forster
Topic(s):
Hope
― E. M. Forster
More From E. M. Forster
- "To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
- "The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
- "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
More In Hope
- "I hope I’m in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value."― Paul Walker
- "I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self."― Arthur Miller
- "My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don’t have to leave."― Tahar Ben Jelloun