Revere Quotes

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

Good, Great, Leader

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

Free, Difficult, Fools

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Rebecca West

Life, Men, Best

Know not to revere human things too much.
Aeschylus

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis

Women, God, Men

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
Annie Lennox

God, Human, Jesus

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Family, Today, Parents

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
James Lovelock

Faith, Trust, Religion

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Edward Young

Despise, Thyself

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?
Mos Def

Beauty, Purpose, Less

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
James A. Michener

Country, America, Creative

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.
Deborah Cox

Her, Presence, Singers

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
Bharati Mukherjee

Family, School, Growing

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
Ken Livingstone

Someone, Hard, Admire

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
Matthew Bourne

Another, Dance, Speak

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Amiri Baraka

Art, Important, Thought

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