| Another quote in Eden of the east is: The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. The quote is one directly from Shakespeare himself. but does anyone has a clue what the meaning is? |
yario said: Another quote in Eden of the east is: The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. The quote is one directly from Shakespeare himself. but does anyone has a clue what the meaning is? Its from Julius Caesar. Really, it means that when a great person treats others as less worthy than themselves that person is abusing their own greatness. Another great quote, from the second movie is "Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, that thou mayst shake the superflux to them, and show the heavens more, just" This is from King Lear, and I believe it means that even kings should work to understand the most wretched of their subjects so that may shake their feelings of superiority and work towards making the work more just in the eyes of heaven. All in all, taken with Noblesse Oblige, it comes to mean that a person in a position of power must do what they can to make the world a better place for those around them, and to do otherwise is to abuse power. |