Famous quotes containing the words men, created and/or equal:
“Hamlet: Why was he sent into England?
Grave-digger: Why, because a was mad. A shall recover his wits there; or if a do not, ‘tis no great matter there.
Hamlet: Why?
Grave-digger: ‘Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)