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.
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would almost think that there were no fools in their days but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex when in fact men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Men their rights and nothing more women their rights and nothing less.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities this drives men from their homes this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
It is generally in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper principles and designs.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state and all men of our time are in such a state.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.