Charles Mackay book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
April 18, 1778, p. 400
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Charles Mackay book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
“For a man petticoat government is the limit of insolence.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“3104. Insolence is Pride, with her Mask pulled off.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.”
J. M. Barrie book Peter Pan
Act V
Peter Pan (1904)
“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
Source: Listen, Little Man!
“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.”
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 100
“Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.”
Theognis of Megara (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
Source: Elegies, Line 153.
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce