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Vaclav Havel Quote: “I really do inhabit a system…”

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

August 4, 2021 1936, Czechoslovakian, October 5, Quotes by Leaders, Vaclav Havel

Francis Bacon Quote: “The quarrels and divisions about religion…”

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

February 11, 2021 1561, English, Francis Bacon, January 21, Quotes by Philosophers

Gloria Steinem Quote: “To say ‘radical feminist’ is only…”

To say ‘radical feminist’ is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

June 21, 2020 1934, American, Gloria Steinem, March 25, Quotes by Activists

Alexander Pope Quote: “I find myself hoping a total…”

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

January 31, 2019 1688, Alexander Pope, English, May 21, Quotes by Poets

John Drinkwater Quote: “A lyric, it is true, is…”

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

December 25, 2018 1882, English, John Drinkwater, June 1, Quotes by Poets

Theodor Mommsen Quote: “The Mediterranean Sea with its various…”

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The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.

October 19, 2018 1817, German, November 30, Quotes by Historians, Theodor Mommsen
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