Quotes on Men

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.