Quotes on Men

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.