981 private quotes tagged men

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” — Robert Kennedy

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.” — Edmund Burke

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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” — Richard Whately

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“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

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“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” — William Shakespeare

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“These are the times that try men's souls.” — Thomas Paine

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“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.” — Plato

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” — Voltaire

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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx

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“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.” — Ronald Reagan

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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