"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought"
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
About this Quote
The quote recommends that those who are thought about "males of action," or people who take initiative in producing modification, are really just instruments of the minds of thinkers and intellectuals. The ramification is that real modification and development come from those who can believe deeply and critically, instead of those who simply act without cautious consideration.
"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"
"Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent"