Man Quotes

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

~ Herschel Walker

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

~ Hulk Hogan

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

~ Glenn Hughes

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

~ Lucius Accius

The good man is the friend of all living things.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Man is by nature a political animal.

~ Aristotle

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

~ Nikola Tesla

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

~ Marilyn Manson

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

~ Samuel Adams

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

~ Orison Swett Marden

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

~ Russel Honore

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

~ Edward Jenner

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

~ Edgar Allan Poe

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

~ Ted Williams

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

~ Jules Verne

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

~ Ramana Maharshi

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

~ Plato

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

~ Richard P. Feynman

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

~ P. T. Barnum

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

~ Isaac Newton

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

~ Robert Bork

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

~ Lord Byron

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

~ Galileo Galilei

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

~ Tacitus

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

~ Samuel Johnson

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

~ Christopher Dawson

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

~ Nikita Khrushchev