Quotes About Man

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.