981 private quotes tagged men

“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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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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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” — Harry S. Truman

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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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“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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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” — C. S. Lewis

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.” — Albert Camus

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“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.” — H. L. Mencken

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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