Famous Quotes

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."

Niccolo Machiavelli on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

• "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

• "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

• "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."

• "A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

• "Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."