A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power educates the potentate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

Herman Melville

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

Vladimir Lenin

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Paul Keating

Responsibility educates.

Wendell Phillips

It is defeat which educates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

Michael O'Keefe

Every great person educates themselves.

Nas

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

Haim Ginott

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.