Arthur Desmond: Quotes about men

Arthur Desmond was New Zealnd writer. Explore interesting quotes on men.
Arthur Desmond: 32   quotes 1   like

“Now what I desire to know is this: If we want to shoot a man and he badly wants to shoot us, why should we not take his property (if we can) as well as his life? Isn't that the way men win a 'fatherland' first? Don't they fight and conquer the original owners and then take the land? Very well then, what is the good of being a soldier, of risking your life, and being a brave man in battle, if you cannot sieze from your beaten enemy, what your greater valor wins and what you stand badly in need of?”

Arthur Desmond

Rival Caesars (1903)

Life , Men , Way , Fight

“Why do men go to war? Is it not in some way to better their condition. All these new fangled notions that men fight for other things than their own personal advantage is pure delusion. It is the solid things of life that men are ever after, though some of them haven't the courage to admit it. What is love of country but love of it's good things?”

Arthur Desmond

Rival Caesars (1903)

Love , Life , Men , War

“There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.”

Arthur Desmond

Rival Caesars (1903)

Men , War

“Shall it be said of us in after years that we studied the history of the rise and fall of empires, republics, revolutions , and Caesar's for naught? Shall men say of us we missed our opportunity?.”

Arthur Desmond

Rival Caesars (1903)

Study , History , Men