Quotes About Man

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

There was a man sitting in the dining room of the Titanic, he said: "I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

What man is, only history tells.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.