981 private quotes tagged men

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

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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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“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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“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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“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.” — William Shakespeare

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

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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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“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” — George Washington

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

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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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“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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“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.” — Harry S. Truman

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

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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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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.” — C. S. Lewis

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.” — Robert Frost

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“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.” — Albert Camus

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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