Quotes about men
men special peculiar
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government. Theodore Roosevelt
men looks gone
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
men practice wish
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.
men joy sorrow
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
men rivers age
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
men cost-of-living community
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.
men progressive-taxation dollars
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
men rely-upon suffering
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
men law two-sides
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.
men evil good-man
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
men rights needs
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual. Theodore Kaczynski
men leader mind
Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process. Theodore L. Cuyler
men past civilization
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. I cite the great civilizations of China and India. Theodore Dreiser
men ninety-nine games
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
men wife scary
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
men heaven needs
Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.
men needs
Man will ever stand in need of man.
men looks priceless
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.
men circles ruts
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. Theodor Herzl
men giving historical
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.
men differences culture
That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality. Theodor Adorno
men thinking progress
The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.
men desire filters
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.
men spirit harm
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
men good-man doe
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
men mirages world
What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.
men earth enlightened
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
men want rich
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. Themistocles
men common anticipation
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. Thales
men race long
I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR. Thaddeus Stevens
men america corruption
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
men thinking guilty
It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking. Terry McMillan
men pet like-you
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!