Top 1000 Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

All men are equal before fish.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.