Men Quotes
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.George McGovern
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.George Herbert
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.George Will
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow".
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.Albert Einstein
Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.Joseph Weizenbaum
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.Helena Rubenstein
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.H. L. Mencken
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.Paul De Gondi
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.Erich Fromm
Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it.Coco Chanel
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.Malcolm Muggeridge
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments as a nation have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president. Time, May 17: 25.
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.Jonathan Swift
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
So many men so many questions.Terence
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.Henry David Thoreau
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.Bob Marley
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
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.W. Somerset Maugham
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty - Four hours.Monica Baldwin
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.Pythagorus
The bravest thing that men do is love women.Mort Sahl
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.Emily Taft Douglas
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.James Grover Thurbe
