Born Quotes - page 13

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. (Ernest Gellner)
For man's greatest crime is to have been born. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. View quote
John Rawls
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
God wills, man dreams, the work is born. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. View quote
Robert Benchley
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. View quote
John Ruskin
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born? (Ursula K. Le Guin)
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again. View quote
Ramakrishna
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life. View quote
Ramakrishna
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. View quote
David Attenborough
I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world... View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
If you'd listen, even for a little while I'd be pleased Remember, once more we were born into this world crying. Your dreams and hopes for tomorrow are all in this world. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings. (Clement of Alexandria)
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary. View quote
Francis Galton
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge. View quote
Sri Aurobindo