Quotes on Men

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.