Bidding Systems

Famous quotes containing the words bidding and/or systems:

“A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)