Disgrace Quote by Laozi

Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his…

— Calvin Coolidge

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him).…

— Zhuangzi

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

— Max Muller

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

— Thomas Jefferson

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as…

— Samuel Adams

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

— Joshua Reynolds

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is…

— Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself

— Aristotle

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind).…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

— Virgil

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe