Men Quotes
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.Sydney Harris
Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.Sallust
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.George Gallup
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.Johann von Goethe
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.Thomas Carlyle
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
When the candles are out all women are fair.Plutarch, Morals
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure? - That is all agnosticism means.Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1859
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.Euripides
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.Euripides, Temenidae
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.Johann von Goethe
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.Lewis Thomas
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.Rachel Carson
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.Author Unknown
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.Thomas Jefferson
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
Virtue is its own punishment.Aneurin Bevan
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
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.George Santayana
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.George Bernard Shaw
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.Saint Jerome, Letter 48
