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Quotes About Men

You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend in every instance to all kinds of degradation and demoralization. We
~ Frederic Bastiat
Society is the total of the forced or voluntary services that men perform for each other; that is to say, of public services and private services.
~ Frederic Bastiat
But yet he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is the origin of plunder. Now
~ Frederic Bastiat
You say, "Here are men who are wanting in morality or religion," and you apply to the law; but law is force, and need I say how far it is a violent and absurd enterprise to introduce force in these matters?
~ Frederic Bastiat
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain -- and since labor is pain in itself -- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Men, therefore, are nothing but raw material. It is not for them to will their own improvement. They are not capable of it; according to Saint Just, it is only the legislator who is.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.
~ Francesca Annis
It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women, anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabetized things, a million forgotten hours.
~ Billy Collins
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.
~ Billy Connolly
Thurmond—same thing. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Clinton . . . all men of power, and the power went right to their pants. Even FDR fooled around. This
~ Billy Crystal
The same Book that tells us over and over again of God's love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men's souls.
~ Billy Graham
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
~ Billy Graham
God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.
~ Billy Graham
Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.
~ Billy Graham
We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become "fishers of men.
~ Billy Graham
It was God's love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.
~ Billy Graham
We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
~ Billy Graham
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?
~ Billy Graham
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war?
~ Billy Graham
Millions today want salvation, but on their own terms. They want to come their own way, and so we have hundreds of schemes and plans devised by men to regain paradise.
~ Billy Graham
God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.
~ Billy Graham
I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.
~ Billy Graham
We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligation to speak with Christian advice.
~ Billy Graham
The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men . . . Every Christian is to be a witness; every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
~ Billy Graham