Men Quotes - Page 341

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe.

Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.