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All Ambitions Are Lawful Except Those Which Climb Upward On The Miseries Or Credulities Of Mankind.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries
or credulities of mankind.
-- Joseph Conrad
Related:
All a man can betray is his conscience. -- Joseph Conrad
Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor.
-- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)...
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality -- Joseph Conrad
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
-- Arabic proverb...
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American -- Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's "Life
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. -- Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
-- Joseph Conrad...
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -- Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim", 1900