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Quotes About Man

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
~ Victor Blanchard Scheffer
I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
~ Victor Garber
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
~ Victor Hugo
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
~ Voltaire
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
~ Walter Rudolf Hess
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
~ Walter Russell
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
~ Warren G. Harding
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
~ Wendell Phillips
Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
~ Will Rogers
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
~ William Faulkner
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
~ William H. Seward
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
~ William S. Burroughs
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
~ William Shakespeare
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
~ William Wordsworth
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
~ Winston Churchill
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
~ Charles Darwin
Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.
~ Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Im a peaceful man with bad intentions.
~ Charlie Sheen
People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.
~ Cleveland Amory
The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
~ Confucius
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
~ Dario Fo