“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.” KnowsFeelsEndsForceCan DoMankindDrivenGrievingAtomsUnnecessary Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.” IfsKnowsWorldTeachMankindHabitResourcesFaultsDrivenEmploymentMiserableBoredomGamblingDispositionHostilityAmusingGamingEnnui Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.” IfsMenReligionMankindCircumstancesFortuneDrivenUselessUncertaintyFavourSuperstitiousCredulityHopes And Fears Book:A Theologico-Political Treatise Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise
“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.” HardReasonRealitySeemsMemoriesMankindRocksDangerousCreationLessonsDrivenAwfulFallenCollectivesHard LessonsCollective Memory Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.” MenMankindDrivenInsanityBlindness Author:Seneca the Younger