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Quotes About Man

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
~ R. C. Sproul
It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.
~ Vladimir Makarov
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
~ Isaac Watts
Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
~ Thomas Brooks
I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.
~ Sean Price
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
~ Mike Ditka
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
~ William Cowper
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.
~ John Osteen
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man
~ Henry Hazlitt
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
~ Daniel Boone
But in the hero ne'er forget the man.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
~ William Faulkner
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
~ Erich Fromm
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
~ Edvard Munch
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.
~ Adrian Rogers
Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
~ Primo Levi
As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.
~ Lorenzo Snow
I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.
~ Lil Boosie
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
~ Loren Eiseley