Men Quotes - Page 127

Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!