Men Quotes

James madison, the federalist, paper # 10 - no man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause,...
Robert quillen - discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.
George Washington
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
Elizabeth montagu - i endeavor to be wise when i cannot be merry,...
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.
Jeanne - Marie Roland
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Whitney Moore, Jr.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Bruce Lee
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
Sir Philip Sidney
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
Alan John Percivale Taylo
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowle
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
J. S. Bach
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
Marquis de Sade
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
Amos Tversky
Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Hasidic Saying
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
John Peter Zenge
Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies
My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly magazine be your entertainment.
Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkle
Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the Himalayas.
Seymour Britchky
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
Simms
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen Poe
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
That government is best which governs least. - From Civil Disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden