We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

- Kenneth Clark

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still …

- Kenneth Clark

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

- Kenneth Clark

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

- Kenneth Clark

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I thin…

- Kenneth Clark

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

- Kenneth Clark

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

- Kenneth Clark

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

- Kenneth Clark

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

- Kenneth Clark