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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.


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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
MARSHALL LUMSDEN No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness w...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more ri...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
WALTER SCOTT It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Be savage, because when you are savage, no else is.
DR. MAYHEM For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hat...
FRANCIS BACON A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast
ARISTOTLE When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
BARON WESSENBERG Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
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JULES VERNE A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
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To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
N...
WILLIAM CONGREVE I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
, "HARVEST," 1906 I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
MARY BAKER EDDY No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed a...
JAMES CASH PENNEY Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
JOSH BILLINGS "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
REV. JAMES BRAMSTON Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
ERIC HOFFER When the party with no power can raise more money than the party with all the power, it means people...
ORIN KRAMER I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
HULK HOGAN Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or l...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON To surrender our control is to become vulnerable to pain, but within that vulnerability there is pow...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or...
RUDZANI RALPH No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a b...
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JAMES A. MURPHY When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarme...
BORIS PASTERNAK What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair...
BRYAN CRANSTON There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes....
VIRGINIA WOOLF A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...
ORSON SCOTT CARD One man is no more than another if he does no more than another
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
WARREN FARRELL As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral...
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ALEXEI MORDASHOV It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. S...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.
ANTHONY ROBBINS Believe no man more than yourself when you are spoken of.
VIKRANT PARSAI The power never to get disappointed with man is by knowing the fact that more than 80% of humans lac...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hid...
GEORGE MOORE Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
ROBERT FROST It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no gre...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin...
JAMES MADISON Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin...
JAMES MADISON A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
JOHN DOS PASSOS His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
THEODORE WHITE The king is come. Deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...
HANNAH ARENDT No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
JOHN TYLER ...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
WILLIAM FAULKNER A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
NANCY GIBBS The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...
AYN RAND The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his o...
CRISS JAMI A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
PAUL AMBROISE VALERY A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
PAUL VALERY The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
YIDDISH PROVERB No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God s...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving f...
JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he m...
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ELAINE PAGELS Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more cont...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old l...
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To live life beautifully and fair is to live life with answerable questions.
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