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Man Quotes



"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
Man,


"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."


"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."



"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."


"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."


"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."


"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."


"It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic."
Man,


"I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery."


"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."


"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."



"Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something."


"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."


"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."


"Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom."


"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."


"I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men."


"I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'"
Man,


"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."



"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."
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