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Man Quotes


"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."


"The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman."


"Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better."


"I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason."


"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."


"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."



"Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit."


"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."


"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."


"So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also."


"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation."


"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."


"You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it."


"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen."
Man,


"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."


"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."


"The less men think, the more they talk."


"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."


"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
Man,


"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."


"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
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