Men Quotes

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

~ Ayn Rand

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

~ Abigail Adams

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

~ George Washington

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Force always attracts men of low morality.

~ Albert Einstein

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

~ Lincoln Steffens

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

~ James Madison

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

~ Oswald Mosley

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

~ Thurgood Marshall

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

~ Ellen G. White

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

~ Robert Kennedy

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

~ Charlie Chaplin

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

~ Jean Paul

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

~ John Keegan

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

~ James Madison

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

~ Carlos Castañeda

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

~ Gabriele Nanni

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

~ Gloria Steinem

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

~ William Godwin

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

~ Walter Rauschenbusch

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

~ Pope Francis

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

~ John Stuart Mill

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

~ John Stuart Mill

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

~ Ayrton Senna

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

~ Walter Scott

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

~ Thomas Clarkson

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

~ Chief Joseph

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

~ Tina Brown

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

~ Clayton Christensen

We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.

~ Ron Kind

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

~ William Petty

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

~ George S. Patton

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

~ John Calvin

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

~ John Locke

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

~ Beilby Porteus

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

~ Antoni Gaudí

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

~ Epicurus