Sting/people

Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or people:

    “I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
    object, and that no man ever can,
    Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
    Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the country’s wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)