Quotes About Man

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.