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191 Among Men quotes by 147 unique authors
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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by…
— Ernest Renan
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to…
— Thomas Szasz
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
— Woodrow Wilson
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For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was…
— Cormac McCarthy
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American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,…
— Philip Roth
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.…
— Joseph Heller
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
— Homer
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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love…
— Ayn Rand
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I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find…
— Glen Cook
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And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked…
— Patricia Briggs
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things…
— Rachel Carson
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more…
— Harold Bell Wright
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If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even…
— Rene Descartes
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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable…
— Bertolt Brecht
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I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in…
— Edmond Rostand
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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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