Man Quotes
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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For a man to become a poet, he must be in love, or miserable.
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
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The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
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When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power. And if a man can act without the appearance of action, and bring about great change without the appearance of desiring it, then he has power.
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I want to find a man and have a family.
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If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
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In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?
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Each man in his way is a treasure.
