Quotes on Men

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.