Quotes on Men

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.