981 private quotes tagged men

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.” — Lord Byron

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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“Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.” — William Butler Yeats

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“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” — Victor Hugo

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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” — Bertrand Russell

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“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.” — Aldous Huxley

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

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“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.” — Karl Marx

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“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.” — Francis Bacon

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“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“These are the times that try men's souls.” — Thomas Paine

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“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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