Constitute

Famous quotes containing the word constitute:

    “I will have never a noble,
    No lineage counted great;
    Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
    Shall constitute a state.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)

    “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)