Quotes
Quotes about Men
[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Historyâits what those bitter old men write.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.
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.
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
