It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don’t expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
Men fall in love with their eyes – they like what they see – and women fall in love with their ears – they like what they hear!
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
