981 private quotes tagged men

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

0 favs

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.” — Voltaire

0 favs

“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

0 favs

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

0 favs

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

0 favs

“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.” — Andrew Carnegie

0 favs

“History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.” — Karl Marx

0 favs

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” — Ansel Adams

0 favs

“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.” — Ayn Rand

0 favs

“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

0 favs

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.” — Thomas Jefferson

0 favs

“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” — E. B. White

0 favs

“Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.” — Sophocles

0 favs

“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

0 favs

“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

0 favs

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” — Blaise Pascal

0 favs

“To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!” — H. L. Mencken

0 favs

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” — James Madison

0 favs

“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.” — Bertrand Russell

0 favs

“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.” — Bertrand Russell

0 favs

“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

0 favs

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” — Thomas Paine

0 favs

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.” — Sigmund Freud

0 favs

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.” — George Orwell

0 favs

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

0 favs