Quotes
Quotes about Man
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Vegans need no pricegouging animal abusing Pfizer Vegans want no domestic battering accident causing Budweiser* Vegans need no services from corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.
A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.
Like a lovely tree She grew to womanhood, and between whiles Rejected several suitors, just to learn How to accept a better in his turn.
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
Every man has two countries, his own and France.
There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni, Mente quatit solida.]
