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“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

— John Wanamaker

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he…

— James Allen

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with…

— Colin Wilson

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so…

— Napoleon Hill

“that men, thinking to better their condition, are always ready to change masters, and in this expectation will take up arms against any ruler;…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

— Albert Camus

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly