#cons

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#mood #solitude #solitude

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that? ↗

— Lizbeth Dusseau

#dubious-consent #polyamory #s-m #bdsm

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#laws #men

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#war #women-and-men #men

Alric! Stop it!" Pickering snapped at him. "You mustn't let the men see you crying!" Fury flared in Alric, and he spun on the count. "No? No? Look at them! They are dying for me. They are dying on my order! I say they do have a right to see their king! They all have a right to see their king!" Alric wiped the tears from his cheeks and gathered his reins. "I'm tired of this. I'm tired of having my face put in the dirt! I won't stand it. I'm tired of being helpless. That's my city, built by my ancestors! If my people chose to fight, then, by Maribor, I want them to know it's me they fight!" The prince put on his helm, drew his father's large sword and spurred his horse forward, not at the trench but at the castle gate itself. ↗

— Michael J. Sullivan

#men

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be ↗

— Joseph Story

#men

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#consequences #evil #evil-men #faust #faust-legend

His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him. ↗

— William Manchester

#men

In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#men