Men Quotes

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

~ Calvin Coolidge

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

~ George Macdonald

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

~ Thomas Aquinas

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

~ C. S. Lewis

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

~ Euripides

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

~ Joseph Smith

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~ Virginia Woolf

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

~ Joseph Addison

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

~ Samuel Smiles

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

~ George Pierce Baker

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

~ Martin Luther King

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

~ Émile Durkheim

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

~ Marcel Proust

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

~ Émile Durkheim

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

~ Diogenes

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

~ Annalee Newitz

I think that when you're queer, you grow up with these kinds of men who might have made you feel small because of who you are. They could be part of your family, or somebody on the street, or a teacher.

~ Ben Hopkins

Time takes away the grief of men.

~ Desiderius Erasmus

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

~ Charles Dickens

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

~ Sylvester Stallone

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

~ F. Sionil José

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

~ William Shakespeare

We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

~ Jonathan Swift

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

~ Richard E. Byrd

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

~ William E. Gladstone

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

~ William Shenstone

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

~ Ken Livingstone

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

~ Helen Fisher

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

~ Jimmy Smits

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

~ Louis Theroux

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

~ John George Nicolay

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

~ Xenophanes

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

~ Julius Caesar

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

~ Elihu Root

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky