Men Quotes

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

William Safire

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Shinn

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

Joseph Bonaparte

Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...

Stan Openshaw - Doomsday

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

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

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Mencius, Works

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

Colton

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Sallust

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor - Edge of danger and must be fought for...

Thornton Wilde

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Clark Hoove

The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

Charles Robert Darwin

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all - Powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle, Politics

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

William Pitt

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

William Ellery Channing