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Quotes About Man

From "Modern Man" in Every Lyric Tells A Story His life is run by telephones and clocks He changes his women, like he changes his socks He plays to win and sometimes he plays rough Knows a lot about sex but not much about love
~ Unknown
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
~ Marlon Brando
Preacher tell nigger that God is man and baby. Then he say that God is baby in December but man only four month later. But then he say God is father and he is son and he is spirit. That sound like he breed himself to get himself, then kill himself. White man God perplexing like the white man.
~ Marlon James
Something else that her mind answer before the question ask. She know the answer. She can't help nobody out of white man power, not even herself. The woman eye still asking. Lilith don't know how to fix her eye to say no, so she look at the man and the same question come over him face.
~ Marlon James
Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine.
~ Marlon James
Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.
~ Marlon Wayans
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
~ Marquis de Sade
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
~ Marquis de Sade
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
~ Martha Graham
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.
~ Martin Amis
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
~ Martin Amis
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
~ Martin Buber
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
~ Martin Buber
But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in which the world can meet man.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love.
~ Martin Buber
The obstacle: for the improvement of the capacity for experience and use generally involves a decrease in man's power to relate—that power which alone can enable man to live in the spirit.
~ Martin Buber
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.
~ Martin Buber
Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.
~ Martin H. Fischer
In considering what the religions teach, it is essential to remember that the outside world is as a reflection of the soul of man [...] The state of the outer world does not merely correspond to the general state of men's souls; it also in a sense depends on that state, since man himself is the pontiff of the outer world. Thus the corruption of man must necessarily affect the whole.
~ Unknown
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.
~ Martin Luther