Men Quotes - Page 1153

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Women continue to reward bold moves made by men because of the confidence it displays.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

The best time to plan an experiment is after you've done it.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.