981 private quotes tagged men

“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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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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

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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“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.” — Ayn Rand

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“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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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.” — Voltaire

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.” — John F. Kennedy

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