Quotes of: Malcolm-x Keyword

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

Emanuel Celler

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

Francis Jeffrey

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Henry A. Wallace

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

Lord Melbourne

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

Leland Stanford

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Marion Barry

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Pericles

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

Richard Leakey

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Robert Dale Owen

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

Woodrow Wilson

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Yulia Tymoshenko

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

Alan Greenspan

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

Jesse Ventura

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Michael Ignatieff

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Bella Abzug