"When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating."

-- Emile Zola

#Needs Quotes #Instruction Quotes #Peasants Quotes

“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

Source : "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.
“For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.”
“Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.”

Source : Jill Shalvis (2010). “Simply Irresistible”, p.170, Hachette UK
“Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.”
“When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.”
“The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.”
“The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1929). “The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science”
“During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela saysÂ â€¦Â the most important thing you have is time to think about things.Â I came to the conclusion thatÂ â€¦Â youâ€™re not going to gain anything with hate. Second thing, itâ€™s more destructive than itâ€™s constructive. Third thing: I came to a conclusion that love and forgiveness are more constructive and will bring people together.”

You may also like:

Alexandre Dumas
Writer
Franz Kafka
Writer
Gustave Flaubert
Writer
Guy de Maupassant
Writer
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
Leo Tolstoy
Writer
Paul Cezanne
Artist
Stendhal
Writer
Victor Hugo
Poet