Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
Edwin Louis Cole
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
Honore de Balzac
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery