Parvenus Quotes & Sayings

It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us ... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history. — Marwan Al-Muasher

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him ... — Watchman Nee

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man. — Laozi

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Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment — Kamil Ali

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses. — Oswald Spengler

We can conclude that a project as grand as the scientific-mythical construction of victory over human limitation is not something that can be programmed by science. Even more, it comes from the vital energies of masses of men sweating within the nightmare of creation-and it is not even in man's hands to program. Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something-an object or ourselves-and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force. — Ernest Becker

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition. — William Deresiewicz

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus — George Orwell

Maybe warlocks only liked other warlocks. Though Magnus did seem to like Alec quite a lot. — Cassandra Clare

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal. — James Huneker

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. — David LaChapelle