Quotes on Every Man

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.