Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men’s prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can’t deal with a woman of their own age.
If there’s anything the name #MeToo calls to us, it’s that there’s a lot more dimension to the equality of men and women and the empowerment of women, which also is like the empowerment of men.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
