Merkmal großer Menschen ist, daß sie an andere weit geringere Anforderungen stellen als an sich selbst.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 35.
Merkmal großer Menschen ist, daß sie an andere weit geringere Anforderungen stellen als an sich selbst.
Aphorisms (1880/1893)
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 139
“The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others.”
“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 5
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Free speech in an age of identity politics (2015)
Source: Black Reconstruction in America (1935), p. 602
“The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great.”
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Context: The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, — Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws — Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.
