Vasily Zhukovsky quotes

Vasily Zhukovsky quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.”
-- Vasily Zhukovsky

#Freedom Quotes #Office Quotes #Foxes Quotes

“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”

Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
“I don't do office work at home.”
“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.”
“I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.”
“We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.”
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”
“The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.”

Source : On Harold Macmillan; attributed
“One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.”

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