Men Quotes - Page 415

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

I will find a way out or make one.

Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I've seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he's lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.