Men Quotes - Page 1093

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.