Man Quotes

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

A hard man is good to find.