James Harrington famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
-- James Harrington

#Men #Religion #Terror
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you canâ€™t measure something, you canâ€™t understand it. If you canâ€™t understand it, you canâ€™t control it. If you canâ€™t control it, you canâ€™t improve it.
-- James Harrington

#Measurement #Firsts #Steps
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
-- James Harrington

#Passion #Men #Vices
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.
-- James Harrington

#Art #Men #Law
The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.
-- James Harrington

#Eye #Fire #Mind
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
-- James Harrington

#Men #Hands #Law
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
-- James Harrington

#Men #May #Firsts
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
-- James Harrington

#Writing #Army #Men

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
No one man is superior to the game.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.
Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

James Harrington famous quotes

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