Quotes on Men

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.