Quotes about millstone

A collection of quotes on the topic of millstone, doing, neck, world.

Quotes about millstone

Vladimir Lenin photo

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

John Maynard Keynes, paraphrase of Lenin Interview http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/15/fake-quote-files-v-i-lenin-on-inflation-and-taxation/
Misattributed

Ghalib photo

“Do not discount my tears; eternal wisdom has decreed
That in this flowing stream the seven millstones all revolve.”

Ghalib (1797–1869) Urdu-Persian poet

Selections from the Persian Ghazals of Ghalib, p. 10
Poetry, Persian Couplets

Margaret Atwood photo
John Davidson photo

“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.”

John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 34

Mikhail Kalinin photo
Miguel de Cervantes photo

“You can see farther into a millstone than he.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 28.

Orson Scott Card photo
Thomas Henry Huxley photo

“For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

Aphorism #367, in Aphorisms and Reflections (1907) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/Book/Aphor.html edited by Henrietta A. Huxley, his widow
1890s

Eric Rücker Eddison photo

“The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone.”

Ch. 3 : The Red Foliot http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/two09.htm
The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

Henry George photo

“No amount of force will break an egg-shell if exerted on one side alone. So capital could not squeeze labor as long as labor was free to natural opportunities, and in a world where these natural materials and opportunities were as free to all as is the air to us, there could be no difficulty in finding employment, no willing hands conjoined with hungry stomachs, no tendency of wages toward the minimum on which the worker could barely live. In such a world we would no more think of thanking anybody for furnishing us employment than we here think of thanking anybody for furnishing us with appetites.
That the Creator might have put us in the kind of world I have sought to imagine, as readily as in this kind of a world, I have no doubt. Why he has not done so may, however, I think, be seen. That kind of a world would be best for fools. This is the best for men who will use the intelligence with which they have been gifted. Of this, however, I shall speak hereafter. What I am now trying to do by asking my readers to endeavor to imagine a world in which natural opportunities were "as free as air," is to show that the barrier which prevents labor from freely using land is the nether millstone against which labor is ground, the true cause of the difficulties which are apparent through the whole industrial organization.”

Henry George (1839–1897) American economist

Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 13 : Unemployed Labor

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham photo

“The early Christians compared the human mind to a constantly grinding millstone; it is up to the miller to determine what it will grind: good wheat or worthless weeds. Our minds are always grinding, but it is up to us to choose what to feed them.”

Martin Dada Abejide Olorunmolu (1948) Nigerian catholic priest

Engage in constructive forms of communication – Bishop Martin Olorunmolu https://www.nationalupdate.com.ng/engage-in-constructive-forms-of-communication-bishop-martin-olorunmolu/ (30 May 2017)