Quotes
Quotes about Man
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ...
My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Lord of human kind.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
