Burden Quote by William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such…

— Thomas Hobbes

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

— Elisabeth Elliot

The common talk of the struggle for survival has obscured the plain fact that man rose in the world primarily by cooperating, not struggling…

— Hermann Muller

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

— Gloria Allred