Ruffian famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
-- John Brown -
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.
-- Lysander Spooner -
He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.
-- Mencius -
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.
-- Oswald Pohl -
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman -
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
-- Thomas Paine