Quotes on Men

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the_x000D_ kind of friends he chooses.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship. You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.