
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Introduction p. I - XII
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Source: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“Power intoxicates those who hold it.”
Dimensions of History, Chapter: Surrender of Power, p. 91
History, Power
“He denounced the motives of those who engineer this progress.”
Footnote: Tolstoy What is to be Done? http://books.google.com/books?id=P4dGAQAAIAAJ& (1899) pp.219
p. 76
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Context: He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including "steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones, sewing-machines, phonographs, electricity, telescopes, spectroscopes, microscopes, chloroform, Lister bandages, carbolic acid... All this progress is very striking indeed;" he writes, "but owing to some unlucky chance... this progress has not as yet ameliorated, but it has rather deteriorated the condition of the working man... [It is] these very... machines which have deprived him of his wages, and brought him to a state of entire slavery to the manufacturer." He denounced the motives of those who engineer this progress.
“Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.”
The earliest known occurance of a similar adage dates back to 1926, then apparently regarded as a common one of unknown origin. Its connection to Alexander Hamilton arose from confusion with its use in 1978 by a UK radio broadcaster also named Alex Hamilton.
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/18/stand-fall/#return-note-8222-15 Per QI
Source: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
“We can’t stand neutral in this battle of ideas. We have to back those who share our values.”
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
Cassandra (1860)
Context: The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is and enjoy it — those who wish for something better and try to create it. Without these two classes the world would be badly off. They are the very conditions of progress, both the one and the other. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
“Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.”
The Mahābhāṣya