Certainty Quote by Anatole France Download Open image “It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.” — Anatole France ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certainty Cruel Math Men Men Cruel Possess Truth Truth
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The reason why cruel men persist to do bad deeds just because they don't want to lose their cruel friends. — Jehan Fostanes Nayga Copy Share Image
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power. — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not happiness. Not… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
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