Men Quotes

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I. F. Stone

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Virtue is its own punishment.

Aneurin Bevan

Half this game is 90% mental.

Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Resentment is anger directed at others - - At what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

George Washington

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

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

Herbert Hoove

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

Dennis Kucinich

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

So many men so many questions.

Terence

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.

Ansel Adams

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

The important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Kelle

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Louis D. Brandeis

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

Jean R. Langley

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

G. Campbell Morgan

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.

Jean Guehenno

All men have need of the gods.

Homer, The Odyssey

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