Quotes
Quotes about Men
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. â¢Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. â¢Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. â¢Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happenâthat's the most exalting.
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny To hang or wed: both hath one hour; And whether it be, I am well sure, Hanging is better of the twain; Sooner done, and shorter pain.
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.
During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
