Belonging Quote by William James

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

— Honore de Balzac

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not…

— Abraham Lincoln

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are always enslaved by material abundance and wealth, and the more they possess, the greedier they become.

— Aisha

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

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win…

— Henry George

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

— William Graham Sumner