Man Quotes

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

~ David Gemmell

Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have.

~ Anne Rice

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help.When the object of man's conduct will be to improve the conditions of his fellow man and not the appeasement of a mythical God, he will become more understanding and more indulgent of the frailties, mistakes, and action of others, and by the same token he will become more appreciative of their efforts.He will develop a greater consciousness to avoid mistakes and to prevent injury. Life and its living will take on a greater significance, and our efforts and energies will be devoted to creating as much joy and happiness as possible for all living creatures.

~ Joseph Lewis

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.

~ C.s. Lewis

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

~ Glenn T. Seaborg

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.

~ Aleksandra Layland

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

~ Even Engesland

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

Objects and ObjectivesTo contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth. Distillation of said raw material. Chemical processes. Pollution. Creating a product providing hours of constructive play. For children all over the world. Teaching our young. Through enjoyment. Preparing them for further resourcefulness. The progress of our kind.A book. Many books. Proud liners of walls. Fingered. Taken out with great care. Held open. Gazed upon / into with something like awe. A medium for the recording of and communication of knowledge. From the many to the many. Down the ages. And of art. And of love. But do you hear the trees outside whispering? Do their voices haunt you? No wonder. They are calling for their brothers. Pulped. Pressed. Coated. Printed. Bound. And for their other brothers which made the shelves to hold them. And for the roof over them as well.From the very beginning - everything at cost. A cave man, to get food, had to deal with the killing. And the bones from one death proved very useful for implementing the death of another.

~ Jay Woodman

Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.

~ Bill Courtney

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

~ André Malraux

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold.

~ Aldous Huxley

A man becomes God. This is the culture of life power of a human being. This is such a culture of unimaginable life power.The term God is the self -prejudiced word. This is used to explain the thing. But whatever happens is encircling a man.

~ Sri Jibankrishna Or Diamond

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

~ Richard Wright

We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity

~ Sunday Adelaja

Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!

~ D.h. Lawrence

Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

~ Voltaire

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

~ George Orwell

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

~ Paul Mccartney

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

~ Charles De Gaulle

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

~ William Shakespeare

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

~ George Orwell

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

~ Aldous Huxley

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

~ William Shakespeare

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

~ Anaïs Nin

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

~ George Orwell

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

~ Thomas Jefferson

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.

~ Franz Kafka

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

~ Christine Feehan

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

~ Stephen King

I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.

~ Lucy Christopher

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.

~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

~ Stephen King

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

~ Stephen King

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

~ William Ritter