981 private quotes tagged men

“It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.” — Karl Marx

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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Men have become the tools of their tools.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” — Confucius

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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius

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“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.” — Aristotle

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“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” — Plato

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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” — Edmund Burke

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“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.” — Plato

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“There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.” — Epicurus

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“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” — Sun Tzu

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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” — Plato

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” — Julius Caesar

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“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.” — Albert Camus

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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” — George Eliot

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