Men Quotes - Page 496

Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments .

Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.

[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.