Men Quote by Francois Mauriac

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

— Rene Girard

“To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of…

— Ayn Rand

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and…

— Ishmael

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest…

— Philip Pullman

“When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type…

— Debra L. Kaplan

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts…

— Eric Hoffer