Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others’ children.”
—Sam Levenson (20th century)

“To learn virtue takes three years; to learn evil, one day.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Martyrs have harmed the truth.... Even today it only takes the crudest sort of persecution to give an otherwise inherently indifferent sectarianism an honorable name.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)