“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) Polish philosopher and sociologist
Source: Freedom
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) Polish philosopher and sociologist
Source: Freedom
“Those who in quarrels intepose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Fable XXXIV, "The Mastiffs"
Fables (1727)
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918): Anima Hominis, part v
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: Classification and indexing in science (1958), Chapter 1: The need for classification, p. 2.
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Taste of the Age”, p. 40
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
“If any one is angry with you, meet his anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two men to fight.”
Irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera parte deserta; nisi paria non pugnant.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 34, line 5.
Moral Essays
Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 134