Quotes for Essays Flashcards
Oscar Wilde - Public Knowledge
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.”
Calvin Coolidge - On the Educated
“The world is full of educated derelicts.”
MLK, Jr. - On how to attain Freedom
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
MLK, Jr. - On Injustice
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Virgil - On Evil
“Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”
Winston Churchill - On What he has to Offer
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
Theodore Roosevelt - On Work
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Julius Caesar - On What Men Believe
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
Voltaire - On What Others Say
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Florence Nightingale - Words vs. Actions
“I think that one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
Woodrow Wilson - On a Nation’s Prerogative to Judge
“No nation is fit to sit in judgement on any other nation.”
Virginia Wolf - On Art
“Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.”
Socrates - On His Citizenship
“I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Henry David Thoreu - On New Clothes
“Distrust any venture which requires new clothes.”
Immanuel Kant - How to Live
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
