Men Quotes

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.

Eduard Sagalaev

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

The "Xlib Programming Manual".

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so.

Shakti Gawain

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luthe

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

W. M. L. Jay

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinge

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be...

Antoine Laurent Lavoisie

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

Valdemar W. Setze

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Carl Sandburg

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Anonymous

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

George W. Foote

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Interstate Commerce commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Walter Lippmann

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Jason Berg

I hate women because they always know where things are.

James Thurbe

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson