Men Quotes

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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
C. C. Colton
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato
Ezra loomis pound - real education must ultimately be limited to men...
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.
George Stanley McGovern
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
John Locke
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.
G. Campbell Morgan
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Professor Edsger Dijkstra
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
George Herbert
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.
Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003
All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You - - You alone have the stars as no one else has them.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
E. M. Cioran
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
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.
Confucius
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
Charles Peguy
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
R. D. Laing