Men Quotes

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
George santayana - happiness is the only sanction of life where...
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Publilius Syrus
I kep six honest serving - Men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amanda grie - a friend is someone, who upon seeing another...
Josh billings - silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute....
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commage
Retirement at sixty - Five is ridiculous. When I was sixty - Five I still had pimples.
George Burns
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andr Maurois
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore Harold White
Culture makes all men gentle.
Menande
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon B. Johnson
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda
When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else.
George Stanley McGovern
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.
Michael Dorris
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
G. K. Chesterton
Well behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Pliny the Elde
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - - No less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
Friedrich Engels, preface to Kark Marx, The Civil War in France, 1891
The really happy man never laughs - Seldom - Though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - And the happy are not over strung.
Prof. F. A. P. Aveling
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes