"Men are still men. The despot's wickedness..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
More by Victor Hugo
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
“My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo”
“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
More on Human Nature
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
“Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.”
More on Power
“O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.”
“It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.”
“Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.”