Men Quotes - Page 609

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.