Favors Quote by Robert Burns Download Open image “How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.” — Robert Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favors Favors Powerful Hangs Favors Person Hangs Persons Power Powerful Wretched Wretched Person
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry? — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn." [ Brigs of Ayr ]” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so;… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It favors the pain, that would leave me alone / or had the luck of the plot, in this wide world would have us — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
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