Gyges Quotes

#1. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

Archilochus

#2. All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. When corporations are given the ring of Gyges, we can expect catastrophic results (for the ecosystem, the banking system, public health, etc.).

Jonathan Haidt

#4. Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. God's decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. And she deserved it, didn't she? She had told herself, desperately trying to rationalize the hurt she was about to cause. She was allowed another chance? Why should she have to give up on romantic love at the age of thirty-five?

Jojo Moyes

#7. The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Mao Zedong

#8. Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

Josiah Bartlett

#9. Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer

#10. The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

Doug Henning

#11. We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan ... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Mohammed Omar

#12. I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.

William Ashworth

#13. There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Markus Zusak

#14. My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Yvette Clarke