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
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin
Strong women only marry weak men.
Bette Davis
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Pythagoras
He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts – the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
Richard Wagner
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes