Men Quotes

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...

Aristophanes

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.

Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

George Santayana

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.

Kin Hubbard

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Theodore Roosevelt

The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Men have become fools with their tools.

Thomas Elisha Stewart

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Dick Gregory

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Machiavelli, The Prince

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Lando

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

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

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little - Understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Steine

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi