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Quotes About Man

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
~ Oscar Levant
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
~ Hermann Broch
If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
~ Mike Rounds
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
~ Nikola Tesla
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
~ Philip K. Dick
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
~ John G. Lake
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
~ R. C. Sproul
What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
~ Sean O'Casey
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
~ Jimmy Durante
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
~ Walter Lang
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
~ Coretta Scott King
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
~ Joseph Conrad
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
~ Eugene Field
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
~ Francoise Sagan
But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.
~ Joe Hill
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
~ Hudson Taylor
I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man
~ Robert Ripley
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.
~ Isaiah
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~ Samuel Johnson
Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.
~ Stephen Colbert