Man Quotes

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One man with courage makes a majority.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Let no such man be trusted.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.