Men Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Power doesn't corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

Low class men desire wealth; middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

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.

The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.