“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
“Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers.”
— Michael Flynn, book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XI (p. 204)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust fo…" by Michael Flynn?
Michael Flynn19
American statistician and writer 1947–2023Related quotes
“It is a Reasonable presumption that a man who sleeps upon his rights has not got much right.”
Charles Bowen (1835–1894) English judge
Ex parte Hall; In re Wood (1883), L. R. 23 C. D. 653.
“Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.”
Oscar Wilde book De Profundis
Source: De Profundis
“A good big man will always beat a small little punk.”
Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager
Source: World Wrestling Federation (1984-1993), Survivor Series (1993)
John Stuart Mill book On Liberty
Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Roy A. Childs, Jr. (1949–1992) American libertarian essayist and critic
“The Contradiction in Objectivism,” 1968
