Blood Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the…

— Carson McCullers

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work…

— Ivo Andrić

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to…

— William Godwin

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

“Men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and so willing to deceive themselves, that they are rescued with difficulty from this pest. If…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual…

— Edmund Burke