Quotes about men
men justice liberty
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men. Friedrich August von Hayek
men appreciate individuality
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.
men choices generations
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy
men economics individual
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
men evil use
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
men design liberty
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
men brave hazards
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. Friedrich Schiller
men creatures
Man is an imitative creature.
men destiny feels
I feel that I am a man of destiny.
men circles mind
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
men animal hands
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
men willpower creatures
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
men play literature
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
men goal forget
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.
men nurse ordinary-things
Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
men play
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
men soldier faces
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
men giving common
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
men hands nurse
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.
men hands giving
What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
men wind storm
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
men heaven purpose
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
men godlike
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
men may rogues
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
men mind excited
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
men doe flight
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
men different relationships-ending
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
men humanity ears
Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.
men evil deeds
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
men wicked doe
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
men perfect mountain
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.
men willpower
The will of man is his happiness.
men hands heaven
The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.