Men Quotes - Page 1168

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

By men's words we know them.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.