Gilbert Murray Quotes
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
We was asked to recant his “heretical” ideas and he would be freed. He was finally freed without recanting and when he established Pennsylvania there was freedom of conscience for all, not even common then in the American Colonies.
George Gilbert Aimé Murray OM FBA was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.
