Quotes
Quotes about Man
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Our true nationality is mankind.
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
Nature is not human hearted.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
What is tolerance?âit is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's follyâthat is the first law of nature.
