If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get t...hem killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if you meet their weakness with the sword to slay and the dogs to tear. The only time you run great risk is when you serve them. The most repulsive thing to all men is gratitude. Men give up property, freedom and even life before they will have the obligation laid on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, ...a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers, and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin'd: Why am I forc'd, like Heav'n, against my mind,... To make Examples of another Kind? Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operat...ing on the mind than on the body of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and c...hild lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a ...fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was--nobody any longer wanted to be that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"... If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now this amazed Martin, since in his opinion one could not even imagine a better century than the one in which he lived. No other ...epoch had had such brilliance, such daring, such projects. Everything that had glimmered in previous ages--the passion for exploration of unknown lands, the audacious experiments, the glorious exploits of disinterested curiosity, the scientists who went blind or were blown to bits, the heroic conspiracies, the struggle of one against many--now emerged with unprecedented force. The cool suicide of a man after his having lost millions on the stock market struck Martin's imagination as much as, for instance, the death of a Roman general falling on his sword. An automobile advertisement, brightly beckoning in a wild, picturesque gorge from an absolutely inaccessible spot on an alpine cliff thrilled him to tears. The complaisant and affectionate nature of very complicated and very simple machines, like the tractor or the linotype, for example, induced him to reflect that the good in mankind was so contagious that it infected metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brown: Gentlemen, I am the bearer of joyful tidings. We leave this charming paradise tomorrow. Quincannon: Paradise! It's the... devil's own backyard. Sanders: Don't jest Quincannon. You know what this place really is. Quincannon: I do. And I can tell you in fifty words and every one of them forbidden. Sanders: If you'd read your Bible instead of hanging around canteens and native quarters all your life, you'd know that Mesopotamia, this, this very spot you're standing on this very minute is the, the actual Garden of Eden. Quincannon: The Garden of Eden, the Garden of Eden, how are ya. I tell ya, it'd take no angel with a flamin' sword to drive me out. Sanders: That's blasphemy Quincannon. Quincannon: Blasphemy. Are you aware you're talking to a man who was for ten years an altar boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,... The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Or be alive again And dare me to the desert with thy sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »