Man Quotes
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
