Quotes with fellow-men

Quotes 941 till 960 of 2273.

  • Oliver Goldsmith Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • William Shakespeare Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • B. F. Skinner Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
    Freedom and the control of men (1955/1956) American Scholar, 25 (1), 47-65
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Marcel Proust Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Bob Taft Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christopher Morley Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Barbara Jordan Life is too large to hang out a sign: "For Men Only.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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