981 private quotes tagged men

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

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

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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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“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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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.” — Henry Ford

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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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“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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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell

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

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

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“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” — Charles Spurgeon

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

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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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“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.” — Plato

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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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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” — Voltaire

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

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