Men Quotes - Page 616

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.