Quotes about Men
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
— Abraham Lincoln
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.
— Kent Hughes
Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
— RC Sproul Jr.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. [...] Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson