#than

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#fear #inspires #less #love #offending

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#die #helps #know #knowledge #merely

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. ↗

— William Connor Magee

#england #free #should #sober #than

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clearly #fasting #fellow #fellow man #head

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#conceived #destiny #extraordinary #god #him

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#boxes #bulbs #disks #gliding #heat

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#been #equality #evidently #great #greater

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#greater #indefinitely #man #population #power

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#credibility #critic #destroy #honest #i

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

#anything #artist #become #create #devour