“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.”– George Bernard Shaw Related Quotes “At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”– Maurice Maeterlinck “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”– Napoleon Bonaparte “The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”– Aristotle