Men Quotes - Page 982

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

There is no unemployment in eco-systems

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.