Benjamin Franklin Quotes

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

A man without a stick will be bitten even by a sheep.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

I won't let you close enough to hurt me.

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.