“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
“Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!”
Theodosius, or the Force of Love (acted 1680), Act iii., Sc. 2.
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“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.”
Thomas Paine book Rights of Man
Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
“Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?”
James Thomson (poet) The Seasons
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 67.
“No Beast is half so False as Man.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. XLIX: Of the Fox and the Cock
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.”
Alphonse Daudet Tartarin sur les Alpes
Méfie-toi de celui qui rit avant de parler!
Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885; repr. New York: H. Holt, 1917) p. 89; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (trans.) Tartarin of Tarascon. To Which is Added Tartarin on the Alps (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 241.
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Variant: It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), P. 92
“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Source: The Black Obelisk