Men Quotes - Page 854

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.