Man Quotes

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

~ Michel Foucault

What makes you a Man? In My opinion it is the same thing that makes you a woman. It's what makes us all who we are. The capacity to care. If you stop caring, you stop being. The measure of anyone is determined by their capacity to care.

~ Tim Dutton

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

~ Sigmund Freud

Kill the boy and let the man be born.

~ George R.r. Martin

Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?

~ Sigmund Freud

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

~ George R.r. Martin

It may be said with truth that man is always susceptible ofimprovement

~ Thomas Robert Malthus

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

~ Thomas Robert Malthus

Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man has ever played that people are still applauding for _Idiotneil

~ Neil Jain

Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

~ Moosa Rahat

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

~ Alexander Pope

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

~ C.s. Lewis

Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself.

~ M. Danish

It’s a difficult thing to be a man. To try to be noble and honorable in a world of conflict and strife. To distinguish selfish desire from sincere concern. To know when to fight and when to forfeit.

~ Brownell Landrum

Nothing makes you feel more like a man than holding and comforting a woman in your arms.

~ Brownell Landrum

be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos.

~ Abdul Mueed

Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

~ Philip José Farmer

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

~ Samuel Butler

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

~ Anonymous

Account of Love gave me several results, and its amazing:a. When man doesn’t make time to talk to woman, woman feels man is not caring her.b. When woman doesn’t make time to talk to man, man need to understand her problem.c. When man makes mistake he had to give clarifications by speaking truth or even lying. d. When woman makes mistake mad had to accept all excuses given by woman.e. When man suffers, most of the time he had to accept whatever happens.f. When woman suffers, man had to make woman happy by doing anything possibleg. When love ends man need to hide all the tears as he feels he is strong.h. When love ends woman uses tears to blame the man for all the mistakes.

~ Nutan Bajracharya

The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.

~ Jessic Lawson

A technician : it's the one who always see new components on the store, but still care about the old ones.A technician : it's the one who always try to fix problems and never think to give up.A technician : it's a man who cares about what he has, try to update it and never throw it.a TECHNICIAN it's a LOYAL man.

~ Nabil Toussi

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

~ George Orwell

Her capacity for love overshadows the stars, lightening crackles malevolently in the wake of her wrath and for all the tangled mess woman brings to man, in her glory, she is the divine Goddess.

~ Virginia Alison

The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

Don't judge a man by his controversies. Anyone could find him or herself dealing with issues. What matters is how they deal with it.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

Luke’s not a bad man, or even an unlikable one,” she went on. “Just a man. You’re all the same, great big hairy moths bashing yourselves to pieces after a silly flame behind a glass so clear your eyes don’t see it. And if you do manage to blunder your way inside the glass to fly into the flame, you fall down burned and dead.While all the time out there in the cool night there’s food, and love, and baby moths to get. But do you see it, do you want it? No! It’s back after the flame again, beating yourselves senseless until you burn yourselves dead!

~ Colleen Mccullough

She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.

~ Dennis Lehane

He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.

~ Diana Palmer

In his mind, that's what made a man a man, that he protected those he cared about. Those he loved.

~ Regina Scott

The life of a man, no matter how humble, no matter how powerful can be condensed to a single moment ... the moment he has found the woman he will love for life.

~ Mya Robarts

The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.

~ Frank Herbert

If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

~ Conn Iggulden

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.

~ Vann Chow

the man's best friend is his friend's dog.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

~ Conn Iggulden

No man is as big as his own idea.

~ Ray Bradbury