Men Quotes

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice