Men quotes

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.