Quotes About Impact

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Man has never been the same since God died.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.