Quotes on Men

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the _x000D_ worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse.

I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.