Quotes 9961 till 9980 of 10005.
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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