Quotes on Men

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is _x000D_ unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;_x000D_ the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.