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“If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.”

Ifs Knows Men Fighting Realizing Loses Survival Instinct Vain Sheep Flocks Survival Instinct

Book:A man

Source: A man

“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”

Men Self Country Lasts White Existence Protect Mere Instinct South Empires Southern Preservation White Man Self Preservation Sprung Ku Klux Klan

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.”

Men Want Looks Pleasure Horror Instinct Ugly Shrinks Fascination Devilish

Author:Sonya Levien

“The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.”

Men Powerful Instinct Active Violent Gentle

Author:Francis William Newman

“Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.”

Men Feels Doe Faces Leader Military Fronts Cold Shots Instinct Soldier Warm Protection Holes Courageous Shells Comrade Trenches Comradeship

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.”

Source: Outspoken essays

“A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.”

Men Way Stills Goodness Instinct Aspiration Good Man

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.”

Men Firsts Intelligent Instinct Vanity Vain Doormat Self Glorification

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”

Men Born Ability Instinct

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.”

Men Wisdom Politics Economy Rights Fundamentals Property Instinct Liberalism Ownership

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.”

Men Humans Doe Use Instinct Treasure Collectors

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews