Man Quote by Glenn Beck

“Men work hard to attain power, but work even harder to retain it”

— Megan Curd

“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in…

— Bernard Bailyn

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and where men…

— Thomas Paine

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.”

— Patricia Wentworth

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops…

— Frederick Douglass

“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.”

— Tom Robbins

“Alas, put no faith in such a bond of union. interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort their own…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West