Famous quotes containing the words sake and/or bearer:
“He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”
—Simone Weil (1910–1943)