When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
William FaulknerRead
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the significance of symbols in reminding humanity of their responsibilities towards each other.
William Faulkner suggests that regardless of the symbol one identifies with, whether it be a cross, a crescent, or something else, it serves as a reminder of our shared duty to humanity. This speaks to the universal responsibility we have toward one another, transcending cultural and religious boundaries, and encourages a common sense of duty within the human race.
Themes
SymbolsDutyHumanityResponsibilityUnity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about community service and the importance of helping others.
More from William Faulkner
All quotes βI feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William FaulknerRead
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
William FaulknerRead
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
William FaulknerRead
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William FaulknerRead
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
William FaulknerRead
Similar quotes
A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
Charles DarwinRead
Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.
William ShakespeareRead
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenRead
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
C. S. LewisRead
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen HabermasRead