#upon

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#attack #away #fall #great #people

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#mind #object #perception #perceptive #reaction

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. ↗

— Karel Capek

#devolved #end #in the end #mankind #me

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. ↗

— Mary Renault

#grow #hatred #into #like #loathe

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#depend #herself #i #man #must

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#deceiver #deceiving #depends #efficiency #entirely

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#millions #people #sick #upon #you

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#came #earth #first #foot #here

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#assumed #happy #i #joan #just

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. ↗

— Mary Astell

#concerns #great #insensible #know #matters