Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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