Men Quotes

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.

Unknown

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

Elizabeth Adamson

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)

Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Ernest Hemingway

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Who is a wise man He who learns of all men.

The Talmud

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

William Pitt

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Alcaeus

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - - Such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kenko Yoshida

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa

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

Voltaire

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

Elias Boudinot

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsle

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority.

Henry David Thoreau

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Joyce

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Coope

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Albert Einstein

Yo soy un anima infeliz, Perdida en este mundo atormendo. I am a miserable spirit lost in this tormented world.

James A Michener, Iberia

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

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

Amos Tversky

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

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

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche