Mutual Quotes - Page 13

• That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Moving, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Europe, Voice

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• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  James Payn

  Humble, Opportunity, Oatmeal

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  Seneca the Younger

  Fall, Inspiration, Arches

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• Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Differences

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• Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Marriage, Prayer, Honesty

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• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

  David Hume

  Air, People, Victory

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.463

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• The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help
  before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Character, Perfect, Source

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

  Robert Creeley

  Communication, Feelings, Information

  Robert Creeley (1972). “A sense of measure”, London, Calder and Boyars

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• I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.

  John J. Geddes

  Fear, Moon, Needs

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• White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Gun, Cities

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam

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• Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity".

  David Blunkett

  Determination, Self, Creative

  "David Blunkett: the challenge facing Labour today" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

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• The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

  Vaclav Havel

  War, Mean, Men

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• I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Understanding, Violent, Destruction

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• The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hate, Struggle, Our World

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• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Affection, Divine, Accord

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share, one with another, such experiences as may have common value.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Desire

  "The Text of Three Recordings".

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• Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Personality, Conversation

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• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.823, e-artnow

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• A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Marriage, Agreement, Deception

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

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• The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

  James Gleick

  Book, Would Be, Culture

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• When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Fall, Frustration

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