Men Quotes - Page 861

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.

First of all, feminism is not man-hating, not man-berating. It is not saying we are better. It is just saying we want the same opportunities, and we want to be able to make decisions on our own without being judged for them. We want the same freedom men have enjoyed over the years, so I think that's the place where we are. And it's completely not mutually exclusive at all for how you want to look, how you take care of yourself, how you want to be, what you want to look like.

Conservation must become before recreation.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

The proud man is forsaken of God.

Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.