Constitute

Famous quotes containing the word constitute:

“I will have never a noble,
No lineage counted great;
Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
Shall constitute a state.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

“Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)