Malcolm Forbes Quotes

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Men die but an idea does not.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

A record is a message, timeless.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

What rules the world is ideas.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Let it endure forever

The test of greatness is the page of history.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal

Ideas lead to actions.

If you're intimate with a mind as powerful as that of Ellen Willis, it takes you a long time to separate yourself from her ideas. She had an extremely powerful mind.

Ideas have consequences.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive inside all of you. I always knew that, and I think you did too. Because it is not a band- it is an idea.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.