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- Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!'
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 4
- The common herd.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 3
- Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it as his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra, act III
- At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams, October 17, 1863
- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, March 17, 1845
- If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistulae Morales
- If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
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