Quotes about men
men forever generations
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. Abraham Lincoln
men differences religion
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
men doors land
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
men ambitious achieve
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. Sheryl Sandberg
mentioned successive trench
It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
men
Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun. Kylie Bax
men
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. John Webster
men hands color
Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever. Alexandra Ripley
men women
There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue. Sherry Argov
men logic
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away. Alexis Carrel
men responsible given
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
men important
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
men people house
In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries. Alexis de Tocqueville
men multicultural-society religion
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
men democracy affection
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.
men opinion equal
Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
men law differences
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
men faces feels
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
men labor humans
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
men aspect animated
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.
men law constraints
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
men drawing faults
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.
men law ideas
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.
men democracy citizens
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.
men two liberty
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
men details-of-life forgotten
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.
men enemy
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends....
men thinking support
In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.
men thinking two
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
men law age
The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men, and to relieve their distress. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
men rights gauges
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.
men white firsts
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
men law selfishness
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.