Men Quotes
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.David Riesman
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
There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.Charles Caleb Colton
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.John Perry Barlow
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.Sun - Tzu
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so... for Jack history was full of heroes.Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors.... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.Claude Adrien Helvetius
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.Herman Melville
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.Robert F. Bennett
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
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Taylor Benson
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.H. L. Mencken
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?Bruce Burton
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.George Orwell
Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.Francis Bacon
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.George W. Foote
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.A. Alvarez
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.Bruce Barton
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop.Jack Youngblood
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
