General Quotes

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich – don’t want to buy anything.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.