Quotes about Small Men

Calvin Coolidge

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Gary Ackerman

The Constitution this week is being nibbled to death by small men with press secretaries.

There was a well orchestrated Congressional effort to pass a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit flag burning. There had been no recent incident of flag burning and there had been little or no flag burning for decades since the Vietnam War. Yet a small group of Congressmen had managed to get the issue onto the American national political agenda by skillful manipulation of the media and excellent PR.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

John Stuart Mill

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men, no great thing can really be accomplished.

Emile Durkheim

There are two types of men: the great and the small.

Alexa Chung

I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.

Small Men Quotes