Human nature Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“...civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love…

— Immanuel Kant

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”

— Dana Kramer-Rolls

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for…

— Charles Durning

“Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or…

— Aldous Huxley

“The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’. War, it is said, offers man…

— Julius Evola

“Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter.

— Anonymous

“it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues…

— David Elliott