Quotes About Man

Modern man became a Prometheus, believing himself a god capable of transforming anything and everything at will. "When God has become invisible behind the world," Voegelin said, "the things of the world become new gods." Once this is understood,

a man and the result is a god. AUTHOR: Do Odinists honor all the gods that

Locke is not only underscoring his earlier point about man's right to resist the illegitimate, arbitrary power of government, particularly relating to his property rights; he is going further—that is, no government, including one established by the consent of the governed, has authority to violate man's inalienable rights.

the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [the war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

If a man publicly denounces poetry,His shoes will fill with urine.

It all made Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer

the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill and conquer.

Pino realize that the earth did not know war, that nature would go on no matter what horror one man might inflict on another. Nature didn't care a bit about men and their need to kill

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

I went to a cigar store, the man behind the counter asked me, "What kind of cigars do you like?" I answered, "It's a Boys."

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan."