W Quotes
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“When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.”
“When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.”
“When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for their lives and instead, begin to pursue all nonentities of life, God cannot but be frustrated”
“When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.”
“When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.”
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”
“When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“When men are depressed, they try to find an escape. Yes, we fare worse than women, who have ample support systems in place. To us men, intoxication seems to be the only way out. Nobody gives a damn about a depressed man, you see. Man up! Don’t be a sissy! That’s what we are constantly told.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.”
Source: A discourse on ancient and modern learning. The drummer; or, The haunted house. The Free-holder. Of Christian religion
“When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.”
“When men are employed they are best contented.”
Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings
“When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.”
“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”
“When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.”
“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.”
“When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private
“When men are just desserts - that is, when a man is an enhancement to the already complete and satisfying life of a woman who makes choices and takes action - you will be able to choose a partner without surrendering who you are. Most of all, when men are just desserts, you may choose to be in the arms of a man, but need never fear falling into his hands.”
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
“When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves”
Source: Speeches and Writings of Swami Vivekananda; A Comprehensive Collection Volume 5
“When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla
“When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.”
Source: Works. (Author's Ed.)
“When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.”
“When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.”
Source: The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel
“When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.”
“When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods”
“When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.”
“When men at forward fail to achieve the goal, they describe the victory lies in defending.”
“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.”
“When men break up they want to remain friends. Why? Why can't they just get lost?”
“When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.”
Source: The Power of One
“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”
“When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“When men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can keep them isolated: neither walls of prisons nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity, will sustain them all.”
Source: The Declarations of Havana
“When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.”
“When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything”
“When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...
“When men change, maybe Bond will change.”
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.”
“When men cry, real men, we cry Man Tears. Those are tears made up of actual meat. We basically cry pork chops and steaks. Imagine a steak tearing its way out of your eye. It hurts like hell, which causes more tears. It's a vicious cycle”
Source: To Money and a TV
“When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.”
“When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.”
Source: People of the Whale