Men Quotes
So long as there are men there will be wars.Albert Einstein
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.Voltaire
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.Bill Bowerman
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.Cicero
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.Samuel Johnson
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, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.George Jean Nathan
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.Voltaire
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.Charles M. Schwa
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent.Henry Commage
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.Charles De Gaulle
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.Buddha
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - - what are they They are the happiest people in the world.William Lyon Phelps
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.Francis Quarles
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.Confucius, Analects, IV. 3
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.Henry Ford
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.Aristotle
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.George McGovern
Committee - - A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.Fred Allen
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.Blaise Pascal
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.George Eliot
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty - Five are either homosexual or really smart.Becky Rodenbeck
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.Eric Hoffe
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.Robert Copeland
