Quotes
Quotes about Man
Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. â¢Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. â¢Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. â¢Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
