#regarded

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#aspiration #convention #disregarded #eagerness #get

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #country #future #great #great men

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#events #ever #leading #modern #modern times

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#between #consider #culture #development #evil

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#god #made #protective #regarded #restrictive

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#numbers #regarded #weight

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government