Men Quotes - Page 492

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Science is organized knowledge.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.