Quotes 601 till 620 of 10005.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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