Find the Perfect Quote | Explore Our Curated Categories for Every Occasion

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

All men is misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men do not compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Study men, not historians.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can not get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.