Men Quotes

Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.

Unknown

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Lord Bertrand Russell

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable.

Paul De Gondi

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

Theodore Roosevelt

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Taylo

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Otto Kleppne

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Danish prove

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.

Albert Einstein

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Rita Mae Brown

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rebecca West

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmond Burke

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

Helen Kelle

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics

Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self - Understanding and self - Discipline.

Lewis Mumford

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

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

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

Maurice Masterlinck

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

Paul Tillich, From a lecture

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

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.

I Ching

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Allan K. Chalmers