Bad Man Quotes - Page 8

• A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

  John le Carre

  Sacrifice, Men, Soul

  "The Mission Song". Book by John le Carré, 2006.

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• With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

  Victor Hugo

  Weed, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1907.

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