Men Quotes - Page 1150

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

The five C's of expanding your capacity. 1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks. 5. Increase your commitment.