Fire Quote by Russell Kirk

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

— Marcus Aurelius

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

— Thomas Jefferson

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

— C. S. Lewis

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to…

— Mencius

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

— Phillips Brooks

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more…

— Noah Webster

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

— Philip Sidney