Man Quotes

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

~ John Muir

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

~ Norman Borlaug

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

~ Helen Rowland

All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

~ Nat King Cole

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

~ Martin Luther King

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

~ Haile Selassie

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

~ Elie Wiesel

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

~ Joseph Smith

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

~ Athanasius

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

~ James K. Polk

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

~ Frederick Buechner

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

~ George Gurdjieff

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.

~ Myles Munroe

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.

~ Anthony Joshua

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

~ Epictetus

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

~ George Santayana

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

~ Francis Bacon

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

~ Jakob Böhme

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

~ John Quincy Adams

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

One man's cult is another man's religion.

~ Annie Parisse

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

~ Peter Marshall

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

~ Edmund Burke

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

~ Annie Besant

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

~ Carl Sandburg

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

~ Heinrich Heine

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

~ Richard Burton

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

~ Bill Maher

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

~ Thomas Hardy