Quotes from Latter-Day Pamphlets — Thomas Carlyle
1795–1881 Scotland
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[F]riend!—Will the ballot-box raise the Noblest to the chief place; does any sane man deliberately believe such a thing?
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
On this ground, if not on all manner of other grounds, it may be truly said, the "Organization of Labor" (not organizable by the mad methods tried hitherto) is the universal vital Problem of the world.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
Reverence for Human Worth, earnest devout search for it and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it: this, I say, is the outcome and essence of all true "religions," and was and ever will be.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
And, truly, good consequences follow out of it: who can be blind to them? Half of a most excellent and opulent result is realized to us in this way; baleful only when it sets up (as too often now) for being the whole result.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)
I say, it is the everlasting privilege of the foolish to be governed by the wise; to be guided in the right path by those who know it better than they. This is the first "right of man;" compared with which all other rights are as nothing.
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)