Men Quotes - Page 197

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.