No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.