Quotes on Men

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In reasoning, therefore, from appearances which are particular, care must be taken how we generalize; we should be cautious not to attribute to nature, laws which may perhaps be only of our own invention.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.