Men Quotes

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Swami Sivanada

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Graham Green

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Roosevelt

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.

Unknown

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - Men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Earl of Chesterfield

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

I Ching

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

Lao - Tzu

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Caesar Augustus, from Plutarch, Apothegms

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Whitney Moore, Jr.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - The principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William Orville Douglas

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.

Alan Moore, Birth Caul

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Dick Brandon

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. `

Calvin Coolidge

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is... the influence and control of the minds of men.

Ron Dart

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C. S. Lewis, First things First

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow