Men Quotes
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.
If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.