T. S. Eliot Quotes

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

T. S. Eliot

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• Accepting
• Class
• Desperate

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  • Society
  • Accepting
  • Class