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True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? ↗

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#justice #law #right-and-wrong #men

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God ↗

— John Irving

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He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women. ↗

— Ouida

#women #men

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#value #writing #men

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#speech #thoughts #men

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#women #men

After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu. Had he been wrong about Japan not taking an offensive right now? God, he had thousands of men and women to think of, and he feared in his heart that it might not turn out the way he had seen it. He felt doomed, almost paralyzed by his gross miscalculation. He determined, however, that he would not let the word out about Pearl Harbor until he could meet with his American strategists and Philippine President Manuel Quezon. ↗

— Joyce Shaughnessy

#ww #men

An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#trader #men

You have to humor them you know." Lucile sighed lightly as the door closed. "Men can be boring, but they are necessary. One needs to learn to work around them. Don't you think so? ↗

— Kate Alcott

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