Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wir beklagen die Gewalttaten, welche Revolutionen begleiten. Aber je heftiger die Gewalttaten sind, desto mehr erhellt es für uns, daß eine Revolution notwendig war.
Informationen über Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Politiker, Historiker (Schottland, 1800 - 1859).
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay wäre heute 223 Jahre, 6 Monate, 2 Tage oder 81.634 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.10.1800 in Rothley Temple (Leicestershire)
Gestorben am 28.12.1859 in Kensington (London)
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion
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Weitere 78 Zitate von Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wir könnten uns damit abfinden, unter einem Lüstling oder einem Tyrannen zu leben; aber von einem Vielgeschäftigen regiert zu werden ist mehr, als die menschliche Natur ertragen kann.
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Wissen macht schrittweise, nicht sprunghaft Fortschritt.
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A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read.
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A race corrupted by a bad government and a bad religion, long renowned for skill in the arts of voluptuousness, and tolerant of all the caprices of sensuality.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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Boswell is the first of biographers.
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By those white cliffs I never more must see, / By that dear language which I spake like thee, / Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear / O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
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Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak against the violence of the strong.
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Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.
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Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
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Half knowledge is worse than ignorance.
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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
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I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
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I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
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If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
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In every age, the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
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It is evident that many great and useful objects can be attained in this world only by cooperation.
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It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age. Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are, but they only pay with interest what they have received.
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