« All Men Quotes · Lincoln Steffens's Page
Men Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
- Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at…
- Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
- In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that…
- You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
- If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the…
- Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The…
- Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon…
- Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
- We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the power without money, what so they care about money? Power…
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle