Men Quotes - Page 499

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.