Carol Roth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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