Famous quotes containing the words james, manning and/or greer:
“To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men’s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)