Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

As far as men go it is not what they are that interests me but what they can become.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think time to act time to extend our fraternal relations time to become better men time to become better women time to become better and more independent citizens.

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.'

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Men have become the tools of their tools.