The Man Quotes
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.
With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.
