Fellows Quotes - Page 18

• I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, my assistant of many years standing, would tell you: If we have such a leader, God is with us.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Unique, Years

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Race, Issues

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

  Andrew Jackson

  Freedom, Military, Blessing

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Army, Gun

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• God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Believe, Men

  Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, an American Dynasty (1976)

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• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Mean, Men

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• What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.

  Kanye West

  Cute, Girl, Superhero

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• If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

  John Donne

  Sports, Play, Loser

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• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

  Jack Dempsey

  Motivational, Sports, Food

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• He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

  Alice Cary

  Love, Men, Fellow Man

  Alice Cary (1866). “Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns”, p.73

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• Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

  Samuel Henry Miller

  Self, People, Depth

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• The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Flirty, Flirting, Laughing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.20

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• A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Anxiety, Excess

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

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• If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?

  Elton John

  Nice, Gay, Wish

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• We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Travel, Environmental

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• We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Charity, Practicals, Conception

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

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• You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

  Richard Bach

  Mother, Children, Father

  "There's No Such Place As Far Away". Book by Richard Bach, 1976.

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• There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Differences, Justice

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• Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Men, Feelings

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• Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Letter to Elias Shipman and Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

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• Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

  Deepak Chopra

  Honesty, Men, Mirrors

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2012

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• Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.

  Orson Pratt

  Honesty, Grateful, Reflection

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• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  Alice James

  Funny, Death, Dying

  Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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