Quotes
Quotes about Man
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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.
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. [Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.
Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake The angel for the woman in a kiss, At once I wis, My soul will wake!
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
