1888 · Skopia

Showing 14 quotes from 1888

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

1888

★ 9.4

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have no winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus · 1888

★ 5.1

We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

Chicago Labor Enquirer · 1888

★ 4.3

Personal journal

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime.

1888

★ 3.7

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus · 1888

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

Let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

1888

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power · 1888

★ 2.2

Generosity is the essence of friendship.

1888

★ 2.1

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

Vincent van Gogh

1888

★ 2.0

Political literature

The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

The American Commonwealth · 1888

★ 1.9

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw · 1888

★ 1.2

What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

1888

★ 1.1

A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

1888

★ 1.0

Political literature

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

The American Commonwealth · 1888

★ 0.9