Men Quotes - Page 866

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

A poor man fear for money works against him.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.