Greater

Famous quotes containing the word greater:

“Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“The greater number of men are merely corporals.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For the “superior morality” of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this “superior morality” is properly rather an “inferior criminality” produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)