Men Quotes - Page 376

God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

You who are born of the hills/ Hill-bred, lover of hills/ Though the world may not you aright/Though your soul be aweary with ill/This will you know above other men/In the hills you will find your peace again.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

I see a lot of people dressing very similarly, and I see brands being cool because of their name and because of who wears the brands, but that's always been the case. That's kind of the history of fashion. You know, celebrities wear their clothes and people think these celebrities are cool, and then the clothes become valuable. It gives clothes a commodity factor once a certain individual starts wearing that brand. But do I think there's something wrong? I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

If we can reform the man and make him a better man and a God-fearing man, then we have a chance, we believe, to build a better world.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

The only thing that matters is the theater!

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.