The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls 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.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.