Famous quotes containing the words greater, wing, bone and/or man:
“There is no greater evil than anarchy.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)