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You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.
— V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
What a piece of work is man!
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!
— Kalon Jackson
...let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of man is a wondrous jungle where veins like lush tropical growths hang along over-ripe organs and weed-like entrails writhe in squirming tangles of red and yellow. In this jungle, flitting from rock-gray lungs to golden intestines, from liver to lights and back to liver again, lives a bird called the soul.
— Nathanael West
The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.
— Manoj Vaz
Caveman used to be a hunter-gatherer...Modern man hunts for jobs(if he wants to be an employee) and for heads (if he is an employer), and later gathers paper in the form of currency notes, contracts, policies or shares.
— Ankala V Subbarao
Man is meant for good but designed for evil.
— Raheel Farooq
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
— manish shripal
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species which often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely inspired toolmakers; any intelligent entity from Arcturus would instantly have perceived them to be, basically, a race of impassioned after-dinner speechmakers.It was inevitable, it was manifest destiny, they felt (and not for the first time) that such a race go forth to conquer stars. To conquer them several times, if need be, and certainly to make speeches about the conquest. But, too, it was inevitable that the race succumb again to the old maladies on new worlds, even as on Earth before, in the litany of life and in the special liturgy of Man...
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much aboutsentiment.
— Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.
— Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.
— Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.
— Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
What's happened with humanity, if was born inhuman man. 26.05.13
— VicDo
Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not.
— José Ortega y Gasset, An Interpretation of Universal History
The enemy of man is man, my brother.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as a noble creature who has only to extend himself to the full range of his powers to be civilized and good; yet his performance by and large has been intrinsically evil and could be more so as the extension continues.
— Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you chose to be?
— Shahla Khan
The choice of a man defines is paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is beauty in the soul of every man.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Fear: A Novel of World War I
Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something's going on.
— Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Joy, joy, joy!Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,And the future is dark, and the present is spread,Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.
— John Katzenbach
Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?
— Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.
— Godfrey Orateng
A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.
— Terraine Francois
man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
She was pretty sure Seth had practiced all his facial expressions and gestures in front of a mirror, and worked out which ones made him look like a cross between an Abercrombie model and a kitten.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
AD is self-absorbed, weak, lusty and wrongdoer, and at the same time good, loyal, progressive, frank, and respectful. He is good. He is bad. He is ban. He is boon. He is justified. He is not justified. He is normal. He is abnormal. He is complicated or he is simple. But one thing is decided, he is natural and “this is a man.
— M.K. Bhutta
A man, who needs you, will not come to visit you in the middle of the night. If he is there, definitely wants to stop you from being helpful.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.
— Various
That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby & 1984
Now you bitches can stand here quaking in your boots about what your women might do to you. I’m going to get my woman.
— Erin McCarthy, Full Throttle
The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself?
— Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space
A man got to have a code. - Omar Little
— Michael   Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
If you don't want a man to lie,don't force him to reply.
— Volodymyr Knyr
You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act of creation through which He revealed Himself was not only word made flesh but fire made f
— Anne   Hamilton, God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name
...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Wrong, asshole. Your body makes you male. Your brain and your heart—big and strong as ever—they make you a man.
— Susan Fanetti, In Dark Woods
Beard is like Niqab, that covers cheeks
— Arsalan Khan
A man always has a choice
— Lorraine Heath, Always to Remember
woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innateDid GOD create MAN in his own image? ORDid MAN create GOD in his own image?
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.
— Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
He looks like a horse in a man costume!
— Dylan Moran
A man is what a man is
—  he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.Nature has no compassion. It is, in the words of William Blake, "a creation that groans, living on the death; where fish and bird and beast and tree and metal and stone live by devouring." Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
— Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition
..and she a star, to outshine all the suns of mans days.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley
Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23
— Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Play
A woman does not marry with a man for his wealth, unless he is too rich and a man does not marry with a girl for her beauty, unless she is too beautiful.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
What makes a man real is when his actions and words become memorable.
— Jennifer Ott, Serendipidus
Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.
— Jennifer Ott, Serendipidus
Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can’t forget the thing you haven’t learned yet!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.
— Mitch Rowland, Eternity's Redemption
Here's how man thinks: "If no one's done it, why should I try? It's a waste of my time; but if he's done it, I can do it better.
— Nabil N. Jamal
(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
A man in love is an awful sight.
— Agatha Christie
The way he moves-a singular motion with such ease-put me in awe. He takes down one, two and then three without even bending his back. Knocking down a man so gracefully was nothing I had ever seen before and this red dance drew me in as it did the others around him. He could have easily killed those men. This is a man who has control over himself. This is the kind of man I need.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
There are three stupids:A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a God who considers himself always right.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.
— Asa Don Brown
To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
A man without a filter, is chaos walking
— Patrick Ness
Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
— O. Henry
The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent.
— Brian Vihlen
In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.
— Shawn Lukas
Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.
— Grace Burrowes, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal
God’s Creation - fulfillment of love
—  Man’s creation - fulfillment of want
Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.
— Munindra Misra, PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
It is important how people take you.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?
— R.S. Belcher
It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.
— Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr
In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.
— Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men
It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.
— Edith Pattou, East
The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Is a man truly what he see himself to be?''Only if what he sees is true.
— Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer
A man without enemies is a man without character.
— David Gandy
It must be most dangerous then to be a man. It is indeed, madame, and but few survive it
— Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
I thought I would stand myself a little dinner. I hadn't quite enough sense to know that what I really wanted was human companions. There aren't such things. Every man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.
— Aleister Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley
But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions.
— Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
— Stanisław Lem
Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.
— Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.
— Daniel Willey
He alone is a man who keeps his word:Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.
— Guru Gobind Singh, Zafarnama
For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?
— Alice Munro, Open Secrets
In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmost skirtsOf glory, and far off His steps adore.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
— Anonymous Holy Bible Job 5 7
She was so shattered about what kind of man he was -- brutal, tender, passionate. There was little doubt he had some mental disorder.
— Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter.
— Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
He was quite a Casanova, no doubt about it. He was in a very good mood today and stopped longer than usual. The girls could see he was gloriously drunk. ’Well, Ragna, why do you think I come here so often?’ asked Rolandsen. ’I’ve no idea,’ Ragna answered. ’You must think I’m sent by old Laban.’The girls giggled. ’When he says Laban he really means Adam.’’I’ve come to save you,’ said Rolandsen. ’You have to beware of the fishermen around here, they’re out-and-out seducers!’’There’s no greater seducer than you,’ said another girl. ’You’ve got two kids already. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ ’How can you talk like that, Nicoline? You’ve always been a thorn in my flesh and you’ll be the death of me, you know damned well. But as for you, Ragna, I’m going to save your soul wether you like it or not!
— Knut Hamsun, Dreamers
If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?
— Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
Excuse me, sir?" "Do you wish to become a shepherd of souls? A minister of our church?" "No," replied Hugh, frowning. "Why would I wish to?" "Your concern with souls, milord, invites me to believe that you ultimately may choose that path of occupation." Hugh made a face of disgust. "No. I wish to become a man. One must become a man, first, before he can choose to be anything else.
— Edward Cline, Hugh Kenrick
Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?Alex: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred.
— Anthony Burgess
Well, God be with you,’ she said as she finally left him. ’I’m sure He is,’ he replied. She gave a start. ’Are you certain of that?’’He has every reason to be. Obviously He’s Lord over all Creation, but it can’t be anything special to be god of animals and mountains. It’s really us human beings that make Him what He is. So why shouldn’t He be with us?’Having delivered this impressive speech, Rolandsen looked rather pleased with himself. The curate’s wife would be puzzling over him as she walked home. Ha-ha, it was not so surprising that the little dome resting on his shoulders should have made such a great invention after all! But now the cognac had arrived.
— Knut Hamsun
Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life
—  and he let his hair grow right through the winter so that he appeared more and more artistic. His fiancée reacted by saying that he looked like a painter who had ended up as a photographer.
A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.
— Dannika Dark, Seven Years
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
— Honoré de Balzac
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
— Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.
— Jim George, A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it not also be glorious for man to burst the limits of time, and, by a few observations, to ascertain the history of this world, and the series of events which preceded the birth of the human race?
— Georges Cuvier, Essay On The Theory Of The Earth
One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
— Ogwo David Emenike
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original stock, they would find more than one instructive parallel to the case of the longest domesticated of all species, man.
— Asa Gray
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.
— W.K. Marriott, The Prince
Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.
— Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
— Malcolm X
Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.
— Gabriel García Márquez
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
— Steven James, The King
A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.
— Kyle Barger
No arrogant man has ever touched the human heart, no despot ever commanded respect.
— Andy Paula
Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.
— James Hervey Johnson
All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion
— M.F. Moonzajer
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.
— Max Wertheimer
I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into the depths. When I let this hate free, I am almost overcome by it, but I cannot change this and do not really know how it could be otherwise. Let no one deprecate this, nor fool himself about the power of such hatred. Hate drives to reality. Hate is the father of the action. The way out of our defiled and desecrated house is through the command to hate Satan. Only so will be earn the right to search in the darkness for the way of love.In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers.
— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the station, and which was hardly built with such loads in mind, sat a massive figure who appeared even more enormous by virtue of the thick overcoat he wore. Everything about him had the effect of extraordinary permanence and solidity: the deep bass voice; the tweed jacket, already, at that time, almost habitual; the appetite at dinner; and at night, the truly Cyclopean snoring, loud as a series of buzz saws, which frightened the other guests at my Chiemgau country house out of their peaceful slumbers.
— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair
You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man."You must make the choice, you must come to the decision. Is it to be God or Man? Churches or Homes—preparation for death or happiness for the living?If ever man needed an example of the benefit of the one against the other, he need but read the pages of history for proof of how religion retarded progress and provoked hatred among the children of men.When theology ruled the world, man was a slave. The people lived in huts and hovels. They were clad in rags and skins; they devoured crusts and gnawed bones; the priests wore garments of silk and satin; carried mitres of gold and precious stones, robbed the poor and lived upon the fat of the land!Here and there a brave man appeared to question their authority. These martyrs to intellectual emancipation slowly and painfully broke the spell of superstition and ushered in the Age of Reason and the Dawn of Science.Man became the only god that man can know.He no longer fell upon his knees in fear.He began to enjoy the fruits of his own labor.He discovered a way to relieve himself from the drudgery of continuous toil; he began to enjoy a few comforts of life—and for the first time upon this earth he found a few moments for happiness. It is far more important to learn how to live than to learn how to pray.A new day and a new era dawned for him. His labors produced enormous dividends. He looked at the sky for the first time and saw that it was blue! He searched the heavens and found no God. He no longer feared the manifestations of nature.
— Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto
Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.
— Jemmy Wiratama
the onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man
— Priyavrat Thareja
If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".
— Stephan Labossiere
I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.
— Tana French, Broken Harbour
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
— Felix Salten, Bambi
Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?
— Richard Puz, The Carolinian
The most dreadful part of all," the old stag answered, "is that the dogs believe what the hound just said. They believe it, they pass their lives in fear, they hate Him and themselves and yet they'd die for His sake.
— Felix Salten, Bambi
Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind
— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
What do you want? What do you know about it? What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful. He's above all of you. Everything we have comes from Him. Everything that lives or grows comes from Him.
— Felix Salten, Bambi
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
— Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
A married man is a preoccupied man.
— Heather Day Gilbert, God's Daughter
...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.
— George MacDonald, The Fisherman's Lady
You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He claimed that no act or thought that did not have love as its purpose was of God. Love was the secret of God’s perfection. Man was imperfect only because of his inability to live life as a continuous act of love.
— Michael  Puttonen, Sanyel
And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'thou mayest'.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” - The Narrator.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.All things are connected like the blood that unites one family.Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.The earth is sacred and men and animals are but one part of it.Treat the earth with respect so that it lasts for centuries to come and is a place of wonder and beauty for our children.
— Extract from Chief Seattle.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
— Heraclitus
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
— Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
If a man is proud of you in public, he will always be proud of you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I am not going to pretend to write a love letter to another man.
— Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke
No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child.
— Ellen J. Barrier
you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221
— Deborrah Cooper, The Black Church - Where Women Pray And Men Prey
He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in.""You say that like being a man's a good thing," Nyx said.
— Kameron Hurley, Infidel
To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask themselves questions about what man is in his essence, to all those who wish to take him as their starting-point in their attempts to reach the truth, to all those who, on the other hand, refer all knowledge back to the truths of man himself, to all those who refuse to formalize without anthropologizing, who refuse to mythologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking, to all these warped and twisted forms of reflection we can answer only with a philosophical laugh – which means, to a certain extent, a silent one.
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as well.
— Glenn Beck
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.
— Plato
A man of few words is wiser than a man that speaks out his mind~
— Elena Toledo
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.
— Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths
It is often said that it’s a man’s world! We must change this fact and create this: It’s a human’s world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants.
— Glenn Beck
Man is what he reads.
— Joseph Brodsky
If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood the tower and its relationship to her wound; the damsel is in distress. If masculinity has come under assault, femininity has been brutalized. Eve is the crown of creation, remember? She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes close to. And so she is the special target of the Evil One; he turns his most vicious malice against her. If he can destroy her or keep her captive, he can ruin the story.
— John Eldredge, Wild At Heart
There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achievement. He cannot but adopt the conditions of his own life. No longer in a merely physical universe, man lives in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art, and religion are parts of this universe. They are the varied threads which weave the symbolic net, the tangled web of human experience. All human progress in thought and experience refines and strengthens this net. No longer can man confront reality immediately; he cannot see it, as it were, face to face. Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man's symbolic activity advances. Instead of dealing with the things themselves man is in a sense constantly conversing with himself.He has so enveloped himself in linguistic forms, in artistic images, in mythical symbols or religious rites that he cannot see or know anything except by the interposition of this artificial medium. His situation is the same in the theoretical as in the practical sphere. Even here man does not live in a world of hard facts, or according to his immediate needs and desires. He lives rather in the midst of imaginary emotions, in hopes and fears, in illusions and disillusions, in his fantasies and dreams. 'What disturbs and alarms man,' said Epictetus, 'are not the things, but his opinions and fantasies about the things.
— Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
To man has been given the grief, often, of seeing his gods overthrown and his altars crumbling; but to the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to crouch at man's feet, this grief has never come. Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and overguessed, vapors and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible outcroppings of self into the realm of spirit - unlike man, the wolf and the wild dog that have come into their fire find the gods in the living flesh, solid to the touch, occupying earth-space and requiring time for the accomplishment of their ends and their existence. No effort of faith is necessary to believe in such a god; no effort of will can possibly induce disbelief in such a god. There is no getting away from it. There it stands, on its two hindlegs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.
— Jack London, White Fang
We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul.Be the man for whom I will tame myself voluntarily..Be the man who can make me forget my birth date in moments of utter dellusion.Be the man whose arms are my harbor, whose lips are my shore, and whose name is my only salvation.Be the man who erases my past and draws my future with trails of roses and kisses.Be the man who makes me sigh behind the windows of Poetry, longing to be written. Be the man whose cigarette's ashes are confounded with mine.Be the man whose voice moves mountains inside me.Be the man whose eyes devour the innocence within me with every piercing glance.Be the man for whom I will transform exceptions into rules.Be the man who will dare to tear this poem from my hands.The man who will rewrite with the uncertainty of the futur every single one of my verses.
— Malak El Halabi
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
A man's wounded pride is a violate force.
— Jean Haus, Happily Ever After?
Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone affected and weeping at the ills of some unfortunate person, and who, were he in the tyrant's place, would intensify the torments of his enemy still more; [like the bloodthirsty Sulla, so sensitive to ills he had not caused, or like Alexander of Pherae, who did not dare attend the performance of any tragedy, for fear of being seen weeping with Andromache and Priam, and yet who listened impassively to the cries of so many citizens who were killed everyday on his orders. Nature, in giving men tears, bears witness that she gave the human race the softest hearts.] Mandeville has a clear awareness that, with all their mores, men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason; but he has not seen that from this quality alone flow all the social virtues that he wants to deny in men. In fact, what are generosity, mercy, and humanity, if not pity applied to the weak, to the guilty, or to the human species in general. Benevolence and even friendship are, properly understood, the products of a constant pity fixed on a particular object; for is desiring that someone not suffer anything but desiring that he be happy?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
— Roger Bacon
A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!("The Doomed Man")
— Dick Donovan, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
A rich man, was one who spent a million.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
Katja kneeled in the Parisian streets, shaking and weak from the pain in her head and heart. It had come a second ago—a vague vision from another decade, nearly forgotten by its sender and screaming with emotional turmoil. And only moments after she‟d fed. In the now decrepit walls of a place she once knew, she stared down at a child in despair. In the room where a man breathed his last and a young woman‟s sorrow grew, he lay weeping in a rage only the heart of all sorrow can know. Death and fear came off of him in waves as lightning shared the secret of the man inside the child—the man who would be her beginning and her end if she allowed it.
— Amanda M. Lyons, Eyes Like Blue Fire
...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
What's the burn scale?
— Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.
— Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
— Kahlil Gibran
When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with other animals, some lives are happy, others wretched. None has a meaning that lies beyond itself.
— John N. Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.
— Gena Showalter, Last Kiss Goodnight
I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop.
— Tony Parsons, Man and Boy