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“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Self God Names Arms Lays Endless Command Deception Grain Self Deception

Author:Carl Jung

“More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.”

Men World War Belief Lost British Command Recognition War Of The Worlds World War I Beggar Second World War Bombers Servicemen

Author:Carol Vorderman

“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.”

Men Humans Persons Belief Views Powerful Accepting Subjects Authority Behavior Capacity Ideals Dignity Command Rejects Conception Providing Affirmation Laboratory Human Dignity

Author:Stanley Milgram

“Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.”

Men Stills Order Culture Fantasy Silent Males Bounds Obsession Command Makers Tied Symbolic Imposing

Book:Visual and Other Pleasures

Source: Visual and Other Pleasures

“Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Writing Firsts Country Reason Government Law Speak Wish Causes Party Pay Liberty Degrees Worship Doctrine Command Candidates Amendments Compelling First Amendment

Author:Hugo Black

“A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.”

Men Chance Attention Surprise Command Resolution Secrecy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

Knows Men Trying Has Beens Higher Bigger Newspapers Noise Command Salary Alphas Omaha

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.”

Men Giving Persons Violence He Man Creatures Authority Fellows Command Acknowledge Submit Compliance

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America