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A. Maude Royden

  • The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • "War and the Woman's Movement," in Charles Roden Buxton, ed., Towards a Lasting Settlement ()
  • War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • "War and the Woman's Movement," in Charles Roden Buxton, ed., Towards a Lasting Settlement ()
  • ... we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.'

  • ... the corruption of the best is the worst ...

  • There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice — let me put it quite brutally — between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • "The World at the Crossroads," Women at the World's Crossroads ()
  • It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • "The World at the Crossroads," Women at the World's Crossroads ()
  • It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

  • The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them — you can only break yourself against them.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • in Esmé Wynne-Tyson, The Unity of Being ()
  • If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy, you should start early, say about seventeen.

    • A. Maude Royden,
    • in John Pringle, ed., The Radio Listener's Week-End Book: A Selection of Notable Broadcasts of the Last Five Years ()

A. Maude Royden, English religious leader

(1876 - 1956)

Full name: Agnes Maude Royden.