Men Quotes

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs?

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Some men are born posthumously.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud.

Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them.

It is the misfortune of active men that their activity is almost always a bit irrational. For example, one must not inquire of the money-gathering banker what the purpose for his restless activity is: it is irrational. Active people roll like a stone, conforming to the stupidity of mechanics.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.