The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.