981 private quotes tagged men

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” — Nelson Mandela

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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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“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” — Aristotle

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“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.” — William Shakespeare

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

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“Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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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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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell

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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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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” — William Blake

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

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“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” — Ayn Rand

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

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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