Quotes on Man

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

I lost everything when they put us in prison. I was an enemy alien, a man without a country.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.