The Man Quotes
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
An orderly society cannot exist if every man may decide which laws he will obey.
One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even your grandfather!
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.
