Men Quotes - Page 558

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

Educated men are so impressive.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.