Cities Quote by Thomas Jefferson

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he…

— Christopher Morley

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

— Edmund Burke

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

— Richard Hooker

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by…

— William James

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the…

— Eric Hoffer

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result…

— Albert Einstein