Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly.… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For decades, I thought that scientific truth, solid economic case studies, and common sense were enough to bring about change on the… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and… — Ian McLeod Copy Share Image
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
