Men Quotes - Page 105

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.