Men Quotes

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley

Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.

Saul Bellow

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - - - And then they marry him.

Che

Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Voltaire

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Sophocles

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

Dennis Kucinich

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

Matsuo Basho

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

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

H. L. Mencken

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Unknown

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Karl Kraus

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

Bernard Iddings Bell

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

Albert Camus

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self - Confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Arnold Bennett

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy