Men Quotes
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.
To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.
Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.
