Aggression Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been…

— Clifford D. Simak

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in…

— Jonathan Mayhew

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

— Ameen Rihani

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot would be but vaguely continued by our successors;…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world…

— Anonymous

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of…

— George Washington

“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would…

— Victor Davis Hanson

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

— Seth Gordon

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been…

— Anandi Gopal Joshi