Men Quotes - Page 839

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

[The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom...men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.