Men Quotes

Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Ayn Rand

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

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

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valery

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

Maurice Masterlinck

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Walter Dale Langtry

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.

George Stanley McGovern

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Dickens

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

Joseph Bonaparte

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Sir Richard Steele

Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book