A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative general...ly meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonabl...e soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselv...es up by their own bootstraps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the w...hite man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the futu...re of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man... Made courage, or made order, or made grace. Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a moan among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying... a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man Cia finally noticed me, took a long look at me and began to kiss me: a first kiss on the forehead for herself, she said, for h...er own pleasure; a second one on the left cheek because I was not one of those girls whose strings you could pull to make them dance; a third so the right cheek would not get jealous and one last kiss because she could see that I was a strong little Negress. She added, covering me with her beautiful gaze: "you will stand on earth like a cathedral".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out ...of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. Philanthropy is not love for one's fellow-man in the broadest sense. Howard was no doubt an exceedingly kind and worthy man in his way, and has his reward; but, comparatively speaking, what are a hundred Howards to us, if their philanthropy do not help us in our best estate, when we are most worthy to be helped? I never heard of a philanthropic meeting in which it was sincerely proposed to do any good to me, or the like of me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »