Quotes on Men

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

There's nothing a man can do, that I can't do better and in heels

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

No man can help another without helping himself.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.