Men Quotes

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Commage

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth... Truth - Telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar.

J. Edgar Hoove

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

George Washington

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fulle

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Randy J. Hinrichs

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

G. Campbell Morgan

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

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

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Frederick William Robertson

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

G. C. Lichtenberg

A Libertarian Movement slogan.

Robert A. Heinlein

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

W. T. Ussery

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 are not against you they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowle

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Alan Marshall Beck

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Elizabeth Taylo

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Hannah Moore

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long - Bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross - Bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

Charles Boyle

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude".

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

Peter S. Prescott

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

Anais Nin

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

Educate the heart - - Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Hiram Powers