Thomas Carlyle Quotes
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.Thomas Carlyle
Quotes to Explore
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
Eamon de Valera -
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali -
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Van Wyck Brooks -
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu -
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy -
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Xenophanes -
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone -
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
Calvin Klein
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
Walter Scott -
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Edmund Burke -
In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
Walter Benjamin -
Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Livy -
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
John Adams
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The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
Dorothy Day -
All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
William Butler Yeats -
Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.
Thomas Sowell -
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle