Great men Quote by Leo Tolstoy

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, and like labels, they have the…

— Anonymous

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

— Rex Stout

“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.”

— Herman Melville

“Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving…

— Frank Schaeffer

“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known…

— Marc Bloch

“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”

— Aziz Hamza

“Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire…

— Paul S. Kemp

“Events are events. Humans qualify them as good or bad.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“When you put labels on someone, it's like sticking them in a box with no air holes until they slowly suffocate. People aren't just…

— Sadie Allen

“On the small neutral ground of self-importance, the best men and the worst meet on the same terms.”

— Wilkie Collins