Authority Quote by Anonymous

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

— Blaise Pascal

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not…

— Blaise Pascal

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to…

— George Bernard Shaw

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions;…

— Erich Fromm

It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference…

— Cato the Younger

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

— Anonymous

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which…

— John Ruskin

until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison…

— Dorothy Richardson

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they…

— Rene Dubos