Men Quotes

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

David Hume

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Geoffrey F. Albert

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Prince Otto

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...

Antoine Laurent Lavoisie

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalie

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Russ Zandbergen

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.

Mark Siegle

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

John Locke

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Voltaire

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Vauvenargues

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Jacques Bossuet

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Warren Bennis

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Overlung

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.

Jim We

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Ernest Hello

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

Wilfred Sheed

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

Benjamin Disraeli

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

Bhagavad Gita

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959