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Men Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
- If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
- Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
- Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked…
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a…
- It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
- What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking…
- What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he…
- Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked…
- Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to…
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