Men Quotes

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spence

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Albert Einstein

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

A revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

John Adams, (Diary, 1786)

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurbe

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Kahlil Gibran

Fun has a sacred dimension.

Adriana Diaz

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Peter McWilliams

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

Voltaire

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Sun - Tzu

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

Sir Winston Churchill

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

M. Morris

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Dame Edith Sitwell

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard