Quotes with masters

  • Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
  • In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

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  • Bob Dylan Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aravind Adiga Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
    The White Tiger (2008)
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Nathanael Emmons Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Alexander the Great Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Ideals are the worlds masters.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Plato In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Paul Gauguin In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Amelia Barr It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
    Æsop's Fables, Reflection
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bubba Watson It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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