Quotes about men
men rights revolution
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. James Russell Lowell
men soil buried
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
men citizens made
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
men race faces
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
men thinking destiny
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
men brave doubt
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
men soul eternity
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
men thoughtful originality
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
men mind brain
Stern men with empires in their brains.
men rivers heaven
The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.
men victory able
There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.
men political democracy
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
men ideas long
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
men roots suffering
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
men littles invention
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
men dust wind
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
men knowing-who-you-are blight
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
men past parliament
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
men may ruins
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
men presence-of-mind emergencies
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
men genius talent
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
men giving every-man
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
men tree proportion
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
men literature sincere
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
men political mind
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage. James Q. Wilson
men data religion
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both. James Randi
men history earth
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. James Harvey Robinson
men long found
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
men law hands
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. James Harrington
men may firsts
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
men religion terror
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
men fiction world
[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen. James Gunn
men giving childhood
God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.