Quotes about Men
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.
— Edmund Burke
The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.
— Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
— Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.
— Edmund Burke
Plans must be made for men. We cannot think of making men, and binding nature to our designs.
— Edmund Burke
and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act
— Edmund Burke
Aren't most diets, even when they are ostensibly under the heading of "health," dedicated to impressing others? The desire for the "praise of men" is one of the ways we exalt people above God.
— Edward Welch
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
— Albert Camus
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
— Albert Einstein
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
— Aldous Huxley