Men Quotes - Page 1117

The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.