Pygmies Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. — Winston Churchill
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy… — N. T. Wright
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have… — Herman Melville
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. — Robert Anton Wilson
Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music… — Yusef Lateef
Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should… — Richard G. Scott
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let… — Henry David Thoreau
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies — Basil O'Connor
The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with… — Corneille Ewango
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? — Henry David Thoreau
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world — Honore De Balzac
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful… — John Wesley Powell

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