“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993) British naval historian
Cited in:Lionel G. Titman (1990), The Effective Office: A Handbook of Modern Office Management. p. 117
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)
“The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Without Dogma
10 November
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: Formerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element. It is like a bacillus breeding in the human soul; it destroys the resistant power against the physiological craving of the nerves, of nerves diseased. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Mozi (-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period
Book 1; On the necessity of standards
Mozi
Idi Amin (1925–2003) third president of Uganda
OG Griffith, 1969 despatch on Amin's promotion to major, released by Public Record Office. Amin hailed as splendid, but not very bright, June 23, 2000, Richard Norton Taylor, The Guardian.
“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) American fiction writer
Source: I Am Legend and Other Stories
“This man doesn't get anything, although he is not a woman!”
Wolfgang Drechsler (1963) Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar
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