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Quotes About Man

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
~ Ludwig von Mises
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
~ Lyman Abbott
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The kind of man who can be pro-choice about your baby could also be pro-choice about you.
~ Mark Crutcher
I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.
~ Mark Kirk
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
~ Marquis de Sade
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
~ Max Mayfield
Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).
~ Max Stirner
God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.
~ Michael Crichton
A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?
~ Michelle Paver
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
~ Mitch Albom
W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
~ Nelson Algren
Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man
~ Nelson Mandela
Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.
~ Noam Chomsky
The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
~ Philemon
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
~ Philip K. Dick