Famous quotes containing the words friedrich, peter, support, minority, government and/or affair:
“World history is a court of judgment.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“When the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.”
—Erich Fromm (20th century)
“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)