Tecumseh

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

Billy Bennett

“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

Sacha Guitry

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Isaac Parker

“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

Yul Brynner

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb”. –Yul Brynner

Charles Lamb

“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength”. –Charles Lamb

Jim Backus

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention”. –Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Douglas Bader

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

Henry Liddon

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Charles Péguy

“The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors”. –Charles Péguy

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Hannibal

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

Jerry Falwell

“I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war”. –Jerry Falwell

Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Roger Zelazny

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe”. –Roger Zelazny

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Helen Keller

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow man. It then appears that we are among the privileged”. –Helen Keller

Ludwig von Mises

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

T.S. Eliot

“O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked”. –T.S. Eliot

Thomas Edison

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”. –Thomas Edison

Livy

“Shared danger is the strongest of all bonds; it keeps men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion”. –Livy

Jesse Helms

“I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they Slants, Beaners, or Niggers”. –Jesse Helms

Lyle Alzado

“I never met a man I didn’t want to fight”. –Lyle Alzado

Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”. –Mark Twain

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Edward R. Murrow

“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man”. –Edward R. Murrow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship”. –Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Medgar Evers

“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea”. –Medgar Evers

Eugene Ionesco

“I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstandings”. –Eugene Ionesco

William Morris

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name”. –William Morris

Bob Marley

“Well, the biggest man that you ever did see was – was just a baby”. –Bob Marley

Erich Ludendorff

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

Ralph Ellison

“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked”. –Ralph Ellison

T.E. Lawrence

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses  of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did”. –T.E. Lawrence

James Otis

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

Henny Youngman

“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

Thomas Malthus

“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man”. –Thomas Malthus

Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

Marlon Brando

“I don’t think its in the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed”. –Marlon Brando

Saddam Hussein

“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man”. –Saddam Hussein

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

H.G. Wells

“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”. –H.G. Wells

Basil of Caesarea

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger”. –Basil of Caesarea

Adlai Stevenson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be”. –Adlai Stevenson

Ulysses S. Grant

“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail”. –Ulysses S. Grant

Klaus Kinski

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski

Christopher Columbus

“Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier”. –Christopher Columbus

John Milton

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Edward Thorndike

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

Miles Davis

“If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow”. –Miles Davis

Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

Austin O’Malley

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father”. –Austin O’Malley

Ian Fleming

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

Calvin Coolidge

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager”. –Calvin Coolidge

Hedy Lamarr

“Its funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy”. –Hedy Lamarr

Antonio Gaudi

“Men may be divided into two types: men of words and men of action. The first speaks; the latter act. I am of the second type. I lack the means to express myself adequately”. –Antonio Gaudi

Salvatore Quasimodo

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost”. –Salvatore Quasimodo

Emile Durkheim

“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh”. –Emile Durkheim

Timothy Leary

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

Camilo Jose Cela

“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history, and the ones who endure it”. –Camilo Jose Cela

Giacomo Casanova

“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women, as a general rule, dupe each other”. –Giacomo Casanova

Norman Mailer

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

Herbert Hoover

“Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die”. –Herbert Hoover

Julius Cæsar

“Men willingly believe what they wish”. –Julius Cæsar

Giuseppe Garibaldi

“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune”. –Giuseppe Garibaldi

Richard Wagner

“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

Arrian

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians; men who, for centuries, have lived soft and luxurious lives. We, of Macedon, for generations past, have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves”. –Arrian

Heinrich Himmler

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don’t ask for their love, only for their fear”. –Heinrich Himmler

Nikola Tesla

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”. –Nikola Tesla

Augustus Cæsar

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar