Men Quotes - Page 1094

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

People say I am lucky. I am lucky indeed because what can be better luck than to have the blessings of 125 crore Indians.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.