Thomas Carlyle Quotes
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Ted Olson
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
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
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.
Warren Farrell
In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
Walter Benjamin
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles M. Schwab
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
Time, that aged nurse,Rocked me to patience.
John Keats
I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're here, while we're having fun, while we're sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy...what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.
Kanye West
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
