Quotes on Man

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.

I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

No bad man can be a good poet.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.