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The distinguishing mark of man is the , the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
George Orwell
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell
We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Plato
Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.
Orson Scott Card
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Blaise Pascal
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
The little man is still a man.
Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.
Charles Dickens
