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  • A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Love Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vices Quotes
  • Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Kings Quotes , Men Quotes
  • If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Together Quotes
  • Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Men Quotes , Rights Quotes
  • A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes
  • The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Land Quotes