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Men Quotes by Will Durant
- That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision…
- Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
- Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability…
- If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any…
- No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and…
- An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give…
- Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
- Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe…
- Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
- Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
- The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she…
- The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and…
- The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
- Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
- Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
- The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether…
- And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave…
- So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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