Quotes About Man

Lejeune shook his head. "It's not like that at all," he said. "Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

Then the man's a wreck—all to pieces. His hand's too shaky to print letters clearly like this.

a competent-looking middle-aged man. He spoke briskly and with decision.

Much as he dislikes me, he is not the man to let dislike stand in the way of acquiring any useful information.

He was also a stupid man—that is why he is dead.

My father, Professor Beddingfeld, was one of England's greatest living authorities on Primitive Man. He really was a genius—everyone admits that. His mind dwelt in Palaeolithic times, and the inconvenience of life for him was that his body inhabited the modern world. Papa did not care for modern man—even Neolithic Man he despised as a mere herder of cattle, and he did not rise to enthusiasm until he reached the Mousterian period.

My dear Caroline," I said. "There's no doubt at all about what the man's profession has been. He's a retired hairdresser. Look at that moustache of his." Caroline dissented. She said that if the man was a hairdresser, he would have wavy hair—not straight. All hairdressers did.

But I believe that even without the consideration of his family he would find it impossible to live abroad. He would be a man without a purpose; for his purpose, his vocation, is Egypt.

The Gospel is not only message; it is, more, the fullness of the self-communication of God to man.

Man's self-destructiveness and failure to attain a telos that cures dissatisfaction suggest a disjunction in his origins to which, theologically, the name "original sin" is applied.

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

Che Guevara] was a man who lived his life in the future tense, in permanent rebellion against the world made by capital and empire, and as fighter for revolutionary transformation of that world.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

There is no god without animality, no animal without humanity, no man without a portion of divinity

Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from "nature." This is the meaning of the story told in the first chapters of Genesis.

Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to the pre-historical state of paradisiacal "innocence." (Yahweh only accepts history in order to assign it an end.)

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

God's call to any man and the anointing of the Spirit for service are conditioned upon that man's heart response.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man.

In Faro's opinion, their acquisition could not be compared with what was truly beyond price in his estimation, one man's life or needless death.

He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.