Men Quotes - Page 1053

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.

All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.