Greatness Quote by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Download Open image “Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.” — Hans Magnus Enzensberger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greatness Greatness Needed Mediocrity Mediocrity Politics Needed Politics Politics Despised Trump
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Don't settle for mediocrity when you were created for greatness. Know who you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals:… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
