Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Desmond

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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Arthur Desmond

Arthur Desmond, also known as Arthur Uing, Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg, and Gavin Gowrie, was a political activist, poet, and author. He lived for periods in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and England.

1859 - January 23, 1929
Good or bad I propose to be something great!
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. — © Arthur Desmond
Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.
Women find little pleasure in the society of women.
Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.
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