Their Fellows Quotes

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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people… — Charles Spurgeon
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. — Thorstein Veblen
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more,… — John Keats
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their… — Ayn Rand
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. — Marya Mannes
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and… — William Howard Taft
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause… — John L. Lewis
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows. — Freya Stark
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not… — Plato
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away. — Iain Pears
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All… — C.S. Lewis
Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ...… — Claude Bernard
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows… — Alan Bennett
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the… — Jean Anouilh
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one… — Theodore Roosevelt

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