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Quotes About Man

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.
~ Euripides
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
~ Everett Dirksen
Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.
~ Evo Morales
Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom
~ Ezra Pound
With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.
~ Ezra Pound
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
~ F. Murray Abraham
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.
~ Forest Whitaker
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.
~ Francis Bacon
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
~ Francis Bacon
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
~ Francis Bacon
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
~ Francis of Assisi
How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?
~ Francis Quarles
Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.
~ Francis Quarles
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
~ Frank Herbert
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.
~ Frank Herbert
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.
~ Frank Moore Cross
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
~ Franz Grillparzer