Quotes About Man

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.