Men Quotes - Page 825

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Marketing is an investment, not a cost.

When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.