Men Quotes

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

The common enemy is the white man.

He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Man must conquer nature.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

I say it every day - I'm the luckiest man on earth

This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.