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1 " If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course. "
― Terry Goodkind , Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
2 " What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years. "
― Abhijit Naskar , The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality (Humanism Series)
3 " The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes connot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog. Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality... in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad of eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. "
― C.S. Lewis , An Experiment in Criticism
4 " But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." " It might to keep it open. "
5 " You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. "
― Robert A. Heinlein , Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
6 " I radiated with all the stars in the night sky and the courage of a thousand men ran through my veins. "
― Megan Rivers , A Fateful Melody: A Fictional Memoir
7 " If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both. "
― Conn Iggulden , Khan: Empire of Silver (Conqueror, #4)
8 " Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear-blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear claws at us, time seems to stop, there is silence though a thousand men shout, and at that moment, when terror savages the heart like a trapped beast, you must hurl yourself into the horror.Because the enemy feels the same.And you have come to kill him. You are the beast from his nightmares. "
― Bernard Cornwell , Warriors of the Storm (The Saxon Stories, #9)
