Men Quotes - Page 338

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government of the United States...Lincoln was a great dictator....This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

My only request is that I draw my last dollar and my last breath at the exact same moment.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.