“We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
“We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Though this statement and a few other variants of it have been widely attributed to Herman Melville, it is actually a paraphrase of one found in a sermon of Henry Melvill, "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855) :
: There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others—operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
Misattributed
“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive
reported in Donald T. Phillips, Run To Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership (2001), p. 16.
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Resolutions and Declarations (1970)
To Die For The People
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Marilyn Frye book The Politics of Reality
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 80
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
Sean Kelly, America's Tyrant: The CIA and Mobutu of Zaire, p. 194
Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz (1951) Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
Source: Bishop Alba: "We cannot allow criminals steal our streets, steal our peace" http://fides.org/en/news/36886-AMERICA_MEXICO_Bishop_Alba_We_cannot_allow_criminals_steal_our_streets_steal_our_peace (3 December 2014)
William Whewell (1794–1866) English philosopher & historian of science
The Elements of Morality, Book 1, ch. 1. (1845).
Wojciech Polak (1964) Polish priest
Source: Primate of Poland calls for de-escalation of abortion protests https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/primate-of-poland-calls-for-de-escalation-of-abortion-protests-17105 (27 October 2020)