Burden Quote by Georg Brandes

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like…

— Camille Paglia

“Exceptional men don't cheat on their wives. They don't have affairs. They don't put a cheap thrill ahead of their children.”

— Anonymous

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to…

— Samuel R. Delany

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that…

— Samuel Smiles

“Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they…

— Nick Tosches

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

— Cesare Lombroso

“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.”

— Ivan Illich

“Our society, our culture, and our humanity depend on never crossing certain lines,”

— Craig Johnson

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a…

— Maureen Corrigan

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

— Amala Akkineni

People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and a political…

— Catherine Wilson

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

— Dan O'Brien

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed,…

— Sara Sheridan