Quotes about men
men intellectual battle
I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man. Albert Einstein
men community feelings
A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
men effort chiefs
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
men slave made
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves
men humanity intuition
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
men thinking trying
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz. Ali Smith
men target world
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.
men insightful wicked
Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.
men advice events
An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.
men justice understanding
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
men aspiration nobility
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
men able action
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
men tongue
A man is hid under his tongue.
men forgive-and-forget forgiving
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.
men thinking dust
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
men hopeful chance
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
men past worry
How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.
men grandchildren different
I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different. Alexander Lebed
men sheep body
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. Alexander Herzen
men ideas chivalry
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
men animal desire
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. Alexander Graham Bell
men ideas benefits
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
men succeed steps
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
men telephones able
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
men animal humanity
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. Alexander Hamilton
men careers tyrants
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
men liberty slave
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
men abuse human-nature
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
men agency political
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
men administration constitution
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
men heaven enemy
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
men yield taxation
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.
men diversity talent
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.