Quotes About Man

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.