3 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Human behavior

Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes on human behavior

70. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

133. It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites.

191. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.