War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
– Heraclitus
Related Quotes:
- A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
- You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
- The worship of God is-¦the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality. – John Calvin
- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. – Franois de La Rochefoucauld
- Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one – Heraclitus
- War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
- If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell
- Slaves do not have the bravery of free men. – Pierce Brown
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained. – Heraclitus
- Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants – Michael Bassey Johnson
- He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
- They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
- Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? … Gods don’t think they can become men – Dennis Lehane
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
- We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
- Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep. – Heraclitus
- Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
- The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Ernest Shackleton
- Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. – Robert G Ingersoll
- Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. – JeanJacques Rousseau
- Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring. – Marty Rubin
- Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors. – Plato
- The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men’s eyes. – Jack Donovan
- My father’s haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory. – Roger Klare
- Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. – Herbert Marcuse
- Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man. – Maxim Gorky
- How can intemperate minds be free when they’re slaves to their own passions? – Francine Rivers
- To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. – Idries Shah
- If we are cut loose from the anchor of God’s Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends. – John Piper
- Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Knowledge makes you strong,understanding makes you formidable,wisdom makes you powerful,and love makes you invincible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I’m surrounded by turkeys? – AS King
- Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. – John Maynard Keynes