A Quote by Voltaire

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

J. G. Holland

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Saint Dominic

Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

Lloyd Alexander

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

J. G. Holland

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.

Terry Gross

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.