Famous quotes containing the words pope, benedict and/or iii:
“‘Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)