Decent man Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded.…

— Anonymous

“I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

“He is tall, lean, violent. This place is his home. It is his playground. The children his playthings till they get their scars. He…

— Pierce Brown

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

— Henri Frédéric Amiel

“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could…

— Jim Thompson

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”

— Mina Loy

“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For some men to be great, others must be enslaved.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The lazy man is the slave of his own feelings. His body is his master; not his servant. He is the slave of circumstances.”

— William Dewitt Hyde

“He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry