Men Quotes - Page 1073

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.

A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.