While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Mae West