Men Quotes - Page 256

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.