Men Quotes

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.