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The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.
Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
Only men who have worn a ski suit understand how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she's wearing a jumpsuit.
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.
Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.
A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.
As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.