I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”
“If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.”
Source: Pensees
“If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.”
Source: La dame aux camélias
“If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.”
“If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.”
Source: Sophocles
“If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“If men love you, you have the world in your hands, but if women love you, you have the universe at your feet.”
“If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America...War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.”
“If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.”
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
“If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.”
“If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.”
Source: The spectator
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.”
“If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.”
“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”
Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel
“If men or women don't feel [the way I do], then don't live your life that way. Whatever works for your relationship. It's not just sex. I feel like that about dinner, about taking care of who you're with.”
“If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.”
Source: Guide for the perplexed
“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.”
“If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.”
“If men's lives had any meaning in this world, they had to provide it for themselves by achieving something for which they would be remembered.”
Source: Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD
“If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.”
“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”
Source: Mistborn Trilogy
“If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.”
“If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.”
“If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?”
Source: Spencer: Political Writings
“If men want sex they'll find it.”
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.”
“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
Source: The federalist papers
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
Source: The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation
“If men were angels, there would be no need of government.”
“If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”
“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?”
Source: From a writer's notebook
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
Source: Ethics
“If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.”
“If men were content to love a peer instead of a slave — as indeed some men do who are without either arrogance or an inferiority complex — then women would be far less obsessed with their femininity; they would become more natural and simple and would easily rediscover themselves as women, which, after all, they are.”
Source: Extracts From: The Second Sex
“If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.”
Source: The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)
“If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.”
“If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!”
Source: Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
“If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.”
“If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder.”
Source: An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer
“If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.”
Source: Volpone
“If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?”
Source: A Message to Garcia
“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”
“If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.”