Quotes About Man

He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.

Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

What is a mind, but a pattern? My mind or yours. Man or machine. Simply an arrangement of atoms. Each of us, a unique expression of the mind of the universe.

That section of the fetchmail man page is wild speculation; it has never had any relation to reality.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the Kind of England cannot enter, all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Panchayat' is set in a village and is the story of an urban man coming to the village.

My dad is the Frenchest man alive, but totally dresses like a cowboy and is obsessed with vintage.

There's an order to life: God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, and woman over children. When this order is broken or violated, you have 'hell' on earth.

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.

The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

Let me put it this way: if I am the leading man of the film, and the film-maker is asking me to support him in a certain aspect so as not to burden the budget of the film, I will do whatever I can to support his vision.

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to