“A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can "talk" about him.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Country Town Sayings (1911), p298.
“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God”
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Richard Alleine (1611–1681) English clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 546.
“One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pittacus, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
Peter Akinola (1944) Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria
Interview in The Christian Science Monitor, 8 January 2007
“Even the Gods cannot strive against necessity.”
Pittacus of Mytilene Greek sage
As quoted by Plato, Protagoras, 345d, and by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Context: First, is the danger of futility: the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all.
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Child of Europe" (1946)
Daylight (1953)
Context: He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.You can accuse them of any deeds you like.
Their reply will always be silence.Their empty faces swim out of the deep dark.
You can fill them with any features desired.Proud of dominion over people long vanished,
Change the past into your own, better likeness.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Page 96.
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1968)
Rashi (1040–1105) French rabbi and commentator
Commenting on Gen. 3:9; why should an omniscient God ask "Where are you?"
Commentary on Genesis