Men Quotes

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

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.