Famous quotes containing the words elements, commonly and/or recognized:
“It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive term democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing.”
—Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921)
“Accuse. To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)