Famous quotes containing the words elevation and/or point:
“Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil—or else an absolute ignorance.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)