3 December 2020 James Madison It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
3 December 2020 Andrew Carnegie The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
3 December 2020 David Livingstone If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
3 December 2020 Aeschylus It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Taylor I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
3 December 2020 Clifton Paul Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
3 December 2020 Murray Kempton The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
3 December 2020 Epicurus There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.
