“Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.”
Source: Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels
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“What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.”
Source: Behan Complete Plays
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader
Source: Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)
“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Source: Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
Source: The Prince
“We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.”
“A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.”
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Source: Think Back on Us
Source: The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook
“I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.”
“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle
“The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
Source: Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875