Quotes about Balance
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
- GK Chesterton
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
- GK Chesterton
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- GK Chesterton
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
- Gloria Steinem
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Margaret Atwood
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
- Pope John Paul II
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
- Publilius Syrus
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
- Oscar Wilde