Men Quotes
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.Henry David Thoreau
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.Jonathan Swift
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.William Penn
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Andrew Carnegie
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.Charles Simmons
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.Clive
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.William A. Ward
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
Women are like teabags. You dont know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.Eleanor Roosevelt
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.Alexander Hamilton
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Henry Ward Beeche
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.Lewis Thomas
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.Archibald Cox
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jage
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.Lord Byron
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.Thomas Jefferson
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.Amanda Grie
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.William Penn
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.Aeschylus
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.George Santayana
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
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 men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.Robert Francis Kennedy
Well - Behaved women rarely make history.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.Aldous Huxley
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.William Ellery Channing
Culture makes all men gentle.Menande
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.Voltaire
