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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell on men

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire on men

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy on men

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill on men

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky on men

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli on men

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on men

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud on men

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson on men

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn on men

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli on men

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson on men

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire on men

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire on men

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher on men

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke on men

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu on men

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire on men

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne on men

These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine on men