We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.