“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”– Henry David Thoreau “It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”– Gertrude Stein “All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”– John Locke