Quotes with fellow-men

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2273.

  • Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alice James The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Seneca The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Benedict Arnold The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
    Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • M. Beerbohm The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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  • Alva Myrdal The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Toni Morrison The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Shakespeare The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
    Julius Caesar 3, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • C. Wright Mills The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Richard Burton The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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