Quotes about men
men use politics
Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them. Aristotle
men good-man needs
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.
men views hands
Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.
men way logic
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.
men thinking doctors
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.
men soul lovers
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
men way nicomachean-ethics
Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
men brave coward
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
men evil unjust
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
men action
A man is the origin of his action.
men office want
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
men care politics
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
men tyrants doubt
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?
men politics politician
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
men host popularity
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
men animal law
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
men feelings firsts
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
men thinking nerves
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
men use speech
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
men politics action
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
men goal
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
men self cost
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
men evil hatred
Evil brings men together.
men tragedy comedy
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
men melancholy great-men
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
men joy favors
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
men law cities
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
men two sick
Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
men giving fishes
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
men differences huffing
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark. Ben Hecht
men envy guilt
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
men stupidest connected
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
men thinking misunderstood
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood. Ben Kingsley