Quotes on Men

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It is one of the many unique qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. The ethical need and its fulfillment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.