Men Quotes - Page 488

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.