Accepting Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...”

— Albert Camus

“In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if…

— Salman Rushdie

“Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.”

— Sam Torode

“When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men.…

— H. L. Mencken

“In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted…

— Edmund Burke

“The dismantling of privilege requires the disavowal of any pretense of exceptionalism. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

“One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge men's…

— Paulo Freire

“Endowed with a dignity too great for this world to hold, we are in the world but not of it. The”

— Anthony Lilles

“Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those…

— Margaret Heffernan