Rudyard Kipling Quotes

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

Rudyard Kipling

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• The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Germans

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Succeed
  • Finger
  • Bomb

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • Pretends
  • Diva

• I am not a man who believes that we Germans bled and conquered thirty years ago [to be] pushed aside when great international decisions are made. If that were to happen, the place of Germany as a world power would be gone for ever. I am not prepared to let that happen.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Years

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  

  Drew Carey
  • City
  • Amazing
  • Germans

• A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Pretends
  • Flatterer

• Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Achieve
  • Human Beings
  • Faculties

• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Life
  • Human Beings

• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Human Beings
  • Advances

• Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Regards
  • Impaled

• I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Stage
  • Human Beings
  • Species

• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Pope
  • Divisions

• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Liberty
  • Human Beings
  • Triumph

• You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Dreams
  • Human Beings
  • Learned People

• I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical faith. I logically don't believe that all this stuff surrounding us is generated from dust. But I'm also not like "Jesus Christ came down to save us." It's almost selfish to think that human beings, on this plane of reality, are the end of it.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Reality
  • Faith
  • I Believe

• I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Singing

• The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

  

  Plutarch
  • Creation
  • Animals
  • Tearmes

• However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Human Beings
  • Germans
  • Pretends