Men Quotes - Page 970

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Movement overcomes cold.

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.