The Man Quotes
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.
Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.
Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.
I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.
Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.