Quotes About Man

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Who's that?" I hissed. "Harris Tweed," replied Havisham. "Dangerous and arrogant but quite brilliant—for a man." "Who

You're a good man." He smiled. "No, I'm an average man . . . with a truly extraordinary wife.

There are a lot of idiots in this country," I replied absently, "and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.

A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.

Our entire reality has become experimental. In the absence of any stable destiny, modern man has reached the point of unlimited experimentation on himself.

The greater the tendency to integrate man into mechanical and systemic effects, the more you have to swim against the tide, towards the hypothesis of the illogical sovereignty and material intelligence of things. This is not a mystical hypothesis. It is the only funny one.

Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.

Creation seemed to come about in a sort of chain reaction. He did not worry about it; he was determinedly pursuing his task in all its simplicity; but as we went back towards the village I saw water flowing in Brooks that had been dry since the memory of man. This was the most impressive result of chain reaction that I had seen. These dry streams had once, long ago, run with water.

Broud is a man now, he will learn to control his temper.

Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault.

I'm a woman. And I'm a man. That's how it is for me. I am in a body that I prefer. But the past, my past, is not subject to surgery. I didn't do it to distance myself from myself. I did it to get nearer to myself.

I like to see the people arriving. I like to imagine their lives. It keeps me from thinking too much about my own. A man shouldn't be too introspective. It weakens him. That is the difference between Tennessee Williams and Ernest Hemingway. I'm a Hemingway man myself although I don't believe it is right to hunt lions.

Love is not a pristine planet before contaminants and pollutants, before the arrival of Man. Love is a disturbance among the disturbed.

Under the night rug, the star rug, moon as lantern, man in the moon watching over us, dog star at his heels, we lay.

The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

La liberté n'est dans aucune forme de gouvernement, elle est dans le coeur de l'homme libre ; il la porte partout avec lui. L'homme vil porte partout la servitude. L'un serait esclave à Genève, et l'autre libre à Paris.

On the other hand, nothing would have been so miserable as savage man, dazzled by enlightenment, tormented by passions, and reasoning about a state different from his own.

Nada manifiesta tanto las verdaderas inclinaciones de un hombre como las clases de relaciones que contrae '.

los únicos males que teme son el dolor y el hambre. Digo el dolor y no la muerte, pues el animal nunca sabrá qué cosa es morir; el conocimiento de la muerte y de sus terrores es una de las primeras adquisiciones hechas por el hombre al apartarse de su condición animal.