Men Quotes - Page 9

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.

If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che!

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!