Men Quotes

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 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

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Henry Ward Beeche

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you? re not permitted to enter a Government building with a weapon.

John Alejandro King, a. k. a. The Covert Comic, www. covertcomic. com

The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Madame de Stael

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St. Augustine

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butle

Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.

Saville

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.

Charles W. Tobey

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - In which case all comment is superfluous - Or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Miguel de Unamuno

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

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

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

William Penn

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi

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

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill - Fated creature is born.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov".

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz

Religion... is the basis and foundation of government... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

James Madison

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

H. Mumford Jones

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

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