Constitute

Famous quotes containing the word constitute:

    Abatement in the hostility of one’s enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

    Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a “backwater of life” without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)