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Quotes About Man

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
~ William Beveridge
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
~ Huey P. Newton
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
~ Baudouin of Belgium
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
~ Ernst Junger
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.
~ David Irving
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
~ George S. Patton
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
~ Ernest Bevin
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
~ Henry Ford
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.
~ Isham G. Harris
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
~ Arthur Miller
A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
~ Fred M. Vinson
You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm a man of my word, and I promise that I won't hurt her." He flexed his hands. "When I murder her, I'll do it real quick, so she won't feel a thing." Viktor
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The idea that a man this hopeless about his finances was allowed to roam free in the world was terrifying. She
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm a cowboy, wild and free. No little filly can ever tame a man like me.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.
~ Susan Glaspell