Dangerous Quote by Wendell Berry

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

— Giacomo Leopardi

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

— Alfred Polgar

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks…

— Eugene O'Neill

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

— Groucho Marx

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by…

— Samuel Smiles

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of…

— Albert Schweitzer

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one…

— George Henry Lewes

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

— Whittaker Chambers

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

— Samuel Smiles

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

— Jean de la Bruyere