Quotes on Men

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl.

They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.