Men Quotes

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Macneile Dixon

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world.

Idi Amin

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

For they are yet ear - Kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Lando

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.

Wendy Ward

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

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

Douglas Adams

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Johann von Goethe

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

J. B. S. Haldane

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoove

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bernd Breche

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845