Pugnacity Quotes

#1. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

H.G.Wells

#2. There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

John Lancaster Spalding

#3. Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Sinclair Lewis

#4. There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

William James

#6. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

William Ralph Inge

#7. No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.

Emmanuelle Alt

#9. Every new morning, I write a grateful gratitude for the new grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

Douglas Crockford

#11. The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

John Zorn

#12. A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

Viktor E. Frankl

#13. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#14. The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

J.G. Holland

#15. Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit
not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

William S. Burroughs

#16. Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

Scott Adams

#17. If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

Nelson Goodman

#18. Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Deepak Chopra