Men Quotes

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

A government of laws, and not of men.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.