The wine within lies, at present, in glowing tranquillity, unshaken and unstirred, and the beauty and the purity of the flagon grows upon one as one looks.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Now socialist labourers are not supposed, any more than socialist officials, to be angels from heaven; they are to carry on the work of society with the ordinary human nature which we at present possess; and in circumstances like those just described, unstirred either by hope or fear, our ordinary human nature would undoubtedly take its ease and bask contentedly in the kind providence of the State which relieved it of all necessity for taking thought or pains.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Honour and those other temporal shadows at whose beck men lay down life leave women unstirred.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer