"I do not see how a barbarous community……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as…
— Amerigo Vespucci
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am…
— Ruben Dario
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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of…
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
— William Shakespeare
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long…
— Henry George
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
— Carl Jung
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