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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
- George Eliot
George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.
- George W. Bush
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
- GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
- GK Chesterton
Few men are wantonly wicked.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
- Marcus Aurelius
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
- Cicero
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
- Mark Buchanan
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
- Mark Twain
God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
- Mark Twain