The Man Quotes

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

America is a white man's country.

God is more lasting than the white man.

God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?