
„Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.“
— Oliver Goldsmith Irish physician and writer 1728 - 1774
The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
— Oliver Goldsmith Irish physician and writer 1728 - 1774
The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
— Frederick Winslow Taylor American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856 - 1915
Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 7: Introduction.
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1963, UN speech, acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, and plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature, and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea, and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world — or to make it the last.
— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
Essays (1625), Context: A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
Of Envy
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
— Glen Cook, Water Sleeps, Water Sleeps
Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)
— Howard Thurman American writer 1899 - 1981
Context: In the conflicts between man and man, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance.
The Search For Common Ground : An Inquiry Into The Basis Of Man's Experience Of Community (1971), p. 6
— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
Path of Life (1909), p. 89
— Terence V. Powderly American mayor 1849 - 1924
Context: You cannot judge all men by the one standard, any more than you can make shoes for all of them on the same last. No law that ever darkened white paper in the printing can lay down a rule of conduct for all men to follow alike.
— Alexander Hamilton Founding Father of the United States 1755 - 1804
The Farmer Refuted (1775), Context: The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be liable to such limitations, as are necessary for the security of the absolute rights of the latter; for what original title can any man or set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent? To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Gazette version
— Робин Морган American feminist writer 1941
"Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?", spring 1973, keynote address to West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference, printed in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 178.
— W. Edwards Deming American professor, author, and consultant 1900 - 1993
Deming: The Way We Knew Him http://books.google.com/books?id=VKBz5RW5yFcC&pg=PA125&dq=%22learning+is+not+compulsory%22+%22+survival%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fcqtUtH0BYbioATs44HQAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBjgy#v=onepage&q=%22learning%20is%20not%20compulsory%22%20%22%20survival%22&f=false (1995)
Note: This quote is often cited as “Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
Novum Organum (1620), Book I, Context: There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names — calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.
Aphorism 39
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1902 - 1978
1940s, "Male and Female" in Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 66, (September 1949), p. 36;