Quotes about men
men evil good-man
Evil prevails when good men fail to act. Edmund Burke
men benefits reasonable
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
men evil good-man
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
men stamps cant
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
men years wish
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
men pawns injustice
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
men america envy
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
men ability good-service
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
men organization rights
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
men years people
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.
men animal cooks
Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
men mind littles
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
men independence welfare
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
men age prejudice
Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
men adequate metaphysical
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
men names atheism
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
men mind vices
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
men long guilt
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.
men together action
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
men hands care
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
men numbers understanding
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.
men too-much masters
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
men confusion mind
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
men rights skills
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
men mad wicked
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
men rights anarchy
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
men law support
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.
men mind may
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
men misery prosperity
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
men humanity causes
I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
men knavery would-be
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
men ideas mind
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
men evil good-man
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.