Quotes on Men

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract that, to show gay men being happy and positive about who they were. Oh, I didn't sit down to think this all out carefully. But I knew - right from the start - that my men were going to be proud and happy men!

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about

So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.