Economy Quote by Plutarch

“Men and their honor and fighting… Such things were fine for them. They had victory or they had death, and with the latter a…

— James L. Nelson

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

— Anonymous

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what…

— Cole Younger

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might…

— Upton Sinclair

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

— John Steinbeck

What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million…

— Helen Keller

“The vestiges of a once large and mighty army lay in scattered ruins. Its leaders had abandoned it – fled, to save their own…

— N. Gemini Sasson

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

— Anonymous

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads,…

— William Shakespeare

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

— Gautama Buddha