“Don't let the man bring you down.”
Maya Angelou book The Heart of a Woman
Source: The Heart of a Woman
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“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979) Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 80.
Context: Religion is a link between God and man and man and man. Political ideology is a link between man and man. For this reason the great religions of the world like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the last of all religions, have outlived and outlasted political ideologies. If an unlearned adventurer in his quest for political power and perpetuation brings religion down from its celestial plane to a mundane level by converting it into a narrow political ideology, the adventurer endangers the link between God and man and man and man.
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
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“There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366
“Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
As quoted in Men Who Have Walked with God (1992) by Sheldon Cheney, p. 198
Context: Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.