Quotes
Quotes about Men
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.
Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
By the work one knows the workmen.
When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose sight of.
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
The more reason, the less government.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.
