981 private quotes tagged men

“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” — Andrew Cohen

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“From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.” — Mikhail Bakunin

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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” — David Allan Coe

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“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.” — Aldo Leopold

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“All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.” — Herodotus

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“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” — Walter Lippmann

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“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” — Walter Scott

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“History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.” — Tim Pawlenty

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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” — Horace Mann

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“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.” — Henry Norris Russell

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“Dreaming men are haunted men.” — Stephen Vincent Benet

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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” — T. E. Lawrence

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“All men of action are dreamers.” — James Huneker

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“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“For tis not in mere death that men die most.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” — E. W. Howe

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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.” — Natalie Portman

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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” — Quintus Ennius

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“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” — Albert Claude

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“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” — Sydney Smith

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