Quotes About Man

Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.