There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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.
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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.
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.