Men Quotes - Page 67

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last . . . . A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.