2,613 Quotes About Man

Animals learn early on that man holds dominion over them. Man on the other hand takes a bit longer to learn. Man is given free will by our Master only to find he spends his life learning to surrender it.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

God made manifest divine things in a man.

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.-Kikyo

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

Diogenes was a cynic at his best. He was in search of an honest man but not an hones woman.

Sickness, disease and premature death may be the outcome for those that cannot figure out how to adapt to the man-made world that the Industrial Revolution has created.