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Quotes About Man

When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such attitude is driven by his anima, otherwise he would discuss in a quiet, detached way.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape
~ C.S. Lewis
All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
~ Unknown
The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.
~ Lord Dunsany
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
~ Gary Larson
And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
~ Ayn Rand
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~ Mac Thornberry
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
~ William O. Douglas
Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
~ Adam Smith
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
~ Tom Lehrer
If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.
~ Chinese proverb
Women like a man with confidence. Because without that, whats to destroy?
~ Unknown
No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest.
~ Unknown
If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person
~ Thomas Paine
Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger
~ John Milton
Sex is a sensation caused by temptation, when a man puts his location in a woman's destination, did you understand the explanation or would you like a demonstration?
~ Unknown
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man
~ Henry Louis Mencken
The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.
~ Unknown
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
~ Bill Gates