Men Quotes - Page 116

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

Always desire to learn something useful

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

All realities, all dimensions are open to me!

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.

What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.