Top 37 A Mensch Quotes
#1. Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
Leslie Fiedler
#2. It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.
Judd Nelson
#3. When someone has wronged you, continue to treat them with civility. It's the ultimate mark of a mensch.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#4. Keep moving. Create routines (but sometimes break them). Be opportunistic. Be a mensch. Believe in something. Lighten up. Cultivate a sense of progress. Don't do it if you don't love it. Begin now.
Bruce Grierson
#5. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
#6. Lee was my father's lawyer, a mensch. But he's been very sick. Cancer. Pancreatic." "That's one of the worst. A killer." "Yes, the ones that kill you are definitely the worst. [ ... ]
Sam Lipsyte
#7. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.
Paul Bloom
#8. I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
Louise Mensch
#9. Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.
Louise Mensch
#10. In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
Louise Mensch
#11. We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we don't open our hands to give.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#12. I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
Louise Mensch
#14. 'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'
Louise Mensch
#15. Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.
Louise Mensch
#16. I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.
Louise Mensch
#17. Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.
Louise Mensch
#18. I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
Louise Mensch
#19. Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.
Louise Mensch
#20. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
Louise Mensch
#21. Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant
#22. The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
Louise Mensch
#23. If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious ... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way.
Louise Mensch
#24. Erst wenn die Neugier stirbt, wird ein Mensch alt.
Only when the curiosity dies the man becomes old.
Claudi Feldhaus
#25. That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.
Louise Mensch
#26. Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
Louise Mensch
#27. I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
Louise Mensch
#28. Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.
Louise Mensch
#29. Man usually believes, if only words he hears,
That also with them goes material for thinking.
[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,
Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
Louise Mensch
#31. A leader's upbeat mood metaphorically oxygenates the blood of followers - its' a transfusion into the corporate arteries.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#32. Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#33. I'd take Bieber to the woodshed and spank him. His manager Scooter Braun is scared sh-tless. I don't know what Bieber's problem is. His career is over in three years anyway.
Peter Mensch
#34. What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.
Louise Mensch
#35. Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise Mensch
#36. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#37. I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.
Louise Mensch
