Men Quotes

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Men willingly believe what they wish.