Quotes about Man
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
- Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
- Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
- Henry David Thoreau
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
- JC Ryle
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
- Jack Kerouac
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
- James Freeman Clarke