Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

It’s not possible to stop love.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

I’m addicted to placebos.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

All men are equal before fish.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.