Women are beautiful; but to some, there is that which passes the love of women.” EM Forster, author of Maurice Credit: Evening Standard/Getty Images For Carpenter and men like him, including ...

Forster was a life-long champion of humanist, liberal values. He was a conscientious objector during World War I and, instead of fighting, worked with the Red Cross to trace missing soldiers.

He mentioned a science fiction novella by EM Forster called The Machine Stops ... had advanced enormously" writes the visionary author drily, before adding later: "But humanity, in its desire ...

Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous remark—avoiding politics doesn’t avoid the consequences of ...