Action Quote by Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang…

— Blaise Pascal

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded…

— Ruth Benedict

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the…

— Vera Brittain

To try to stop war by placing before men's eyes the terrible suffering involved will never succeed, because men are willing (in their thoughts…

— Dorothy Day

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

— Thomas a Kempis

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved…

— Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

— Napoleon Hill

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values.…

— Cesare Pavese

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.…

— John Fowles

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