Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization.They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings.

Enemy | Man | Prejudice |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Despair | Individual | Land | Man | People | Sense | Will | Woman |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Enough | Fortune | Man | Men | Nothing | Order | Work |

Eugenio Montale

The man of today has inherited a nervous system that cannot stand the current living conditions. Waiting to form the man of tomorrow, today's man reacts to the changed conditions by not objecting to shock but doing mass massificandosi.

Future | Man | System | Will |

Euripedes NULL

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Day | Man |

Euripedes NULL

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Enemy | Man |

Eugenio Montale

The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Man | System | Waiting |

Euripedes NULL

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Man | Struggle | Will |

Euripedes NULL

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

Contradiction | Man | Mortal | Nature | World |

Eustace Budgell

I find but few beards worth taking notice of in the reign of King James the First.

Boys | Education | Genius | Good | Man | Memory | Mind | Nothing | Will |

Eustace Budgell

Ælian, in his account of Zoilus, the pretended critic, who wrote against Homer and Plato, and thought himself wiser than all who had gone before him, tells us that this Zoilus had a very long beard that hung down upon his breast, but no hair upon his head, which he always kept close shaved, regarding, it seems, the hairs of his head as so many suckers, which, if they had been suffered to grow, might have drawn away the nourishment from his chin, and by that means have starved his beard.

Benevolence | Good | Man | Mind | Qualities | World |

Euripedes NULL

A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man

Man | Wife | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

Man |

Euripedes NULL

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)

Famous | Man | Happiness |

Euripedes NULL

When one receives the generosity of the gods, do not need it to friends, as sufficient for divine help, if God willing!

Excess | Honor | Love | Man |

Euripedes NULL

ManÂ’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Journey | Man |

Euripedes NULL

The sweetest teaching did he introduce, concealing truth under untrue speech. The place he spoke of as the gods' abode was that by which he might awe humans most, — The place from which, he knew, terrors came to mortals and things advantageous in their wearisome life — The revolving heaven above, in which dwell the lightnings, and awesome claps of thunder, and the starry face of heaven, beautiful and intricate by that wise craftsman Time, — from which, too, the meteor's glowing mass speeds and wet thunderstorm pours forth upon the earth.

Man |