Quotes About Man

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path.

There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue.

Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

I'm not religious about God," Boon agreed, "I'm religious about Man." "We believe in average guys," said Watt. "What happens is, the system makes them all fuckheads." "And I want to try to snap them out of that," said Boon. "That's why I write these songs, OK?

When we ascend we have to give people what they deserve: dignity. What I understand by dignity is that man is an instrument for love

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

When describing Tarzan's killing habits, Burroughs is quite clear about what makes an ideal man: He killed for food most often, but being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all the creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasures of inflicting suffering and death.19

There's something horrible in the toilet!" Daphne shouted. "Yeah, I think I forgot to flush," Puck said. "Not that! A little man," Granny Relda said. "Oh," Puck said. "That's just Seamus.

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The

Isaacs, the man who used to sell Dad his jellied

There is nothing like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

After Killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper…

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

That's the trouble, isn't it? He's a good man, but he's got no courage. Hardly anybody has courage anymore. That's what's so disheartening. No one wants to stop these guys who are going for power. No one can bear to be criticized. They're all paralyzed.

I cannot read souls as well as Don Matteo does, but I see that in your past you have suffered from that great wound which afflicts modern man." "Which is. . .?" "The temptation to absolute despair.

Considered mad by all who had known the rich young man, he was everywhere reviled as a scandal and treated with contempt as a son who had brought shame upon his father's house.

is possible that man can devise new forms of violation. But the essential sin remains more or less the same. Each of us, including the best of men, is tempted to make himself into God.

Mother nature is a law unto herself and prone to moods beyond the ken of man.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse

It has been said that man was made in the image of God. We want "God" to be made in the image of man: fully actualised man. It's time for HyperHumanity.

Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man." Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Wherever is the crowd is a common denominator of stench." Knight's best friend, Thoreau, believed that all societies, no matter how well intentioned, pervert their citizens. Sartre wrote, "Hell is other people.