Men Quotes - Page 161

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.