Men Quotes - Page 1092

In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.

Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do better. Alas, anecdotes are not science. And once Wharton School dissertations seek to quantify the performers, these have a tendency to evaporate into the air - or, at least, into statistically insignificant t-statistics.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need to respect the dignity and worth of all persons in the world community." Thinkers as diverse as Peter Singer and Hans Küng also emphasize the need for a new global ethic beyond nationalistic, racial, religious, and ethnic chauvinism.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.