Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, milton, bigger, brighter and/or century:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“Adam, the goodliest man of men since born
His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.”
—Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 4:18-19.
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
—18th century English proverb.