
Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal à ses voisins.
"Fatherland" (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 11, Section II, p. 125
Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal à ses voisins.
"Fatherland" (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p55.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.”
A translation of one of La Rochefoucauld's maxims, published posthumously in 1693. In the original: "Force gens veulent être dévots, mais personne ne veut être humble.".
Misattributed
“The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”
Act IV, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
Source: —Deendayal Upadhyaya, thinker and forerunner of the Bharatiya Janata Party quoted from Malhotra, R. (2021). Artificial intelligence and the future of power: 5 battlegrounds. New Delhi : Rupa, 2021.
Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as quoted in The New York Times (22 June 1964)
Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology