man Quotes

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man.”

― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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“man is something that is to be surpassed.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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“But Natural Selection, we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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