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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. – Ernest Hemingway

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

All religions have been made by men. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. – Blaise Pascal

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. – Voltaire

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men. – Martin Luther

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. – Thomas Sowell

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. – Napoleon Hill

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas J. Watson

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. – Niccolo Machiavelli

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. – Voltaire

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. – Voltaire

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. – Margaret Thatcher

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. – Sun Tzu

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. – Voltaire

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. – H. L. Mencken