Latter Quotes

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. View quote
David Brin
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. View quote
Denis Diderot
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. View quote
Horace Mann
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. View quote
Walter Raleigh
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. View quote
Joseph Addison
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. (Mahatma Gandhi)
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. View quote
Lionel Shriver
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [Entwerfende] part, the latter the executive part. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves. View quote
James Madison
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation. View quote
Jean Piaget
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS. (Thomas Paine)
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. View quote
Norman Cousins
An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville