Men Quotes
One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.
I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.