Man Quotes - page 100

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir and there are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched--he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him. View quote
George Eliot
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. View quote
Harry Houdini
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. View quote
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man. View quote
Saddam Hussein
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man. View quote
Xenophanes
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. View quote
John Dewey
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. View quote
Ayn Rand
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights” is a contradiction in terms. View quote
Ayn Rand
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter if I am right, he will learn if I am wrong, I will one of us will win, but both will profit. View quote
Ayn Rand
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. (Ayn Rand)
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. View quote
Ayn Rand
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. View quote
Ayn Rand
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. View quote
Ayn Rand
Man's rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment. View quote
Ayn Rand
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man. View quote
Ayn Rand
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. View quote
Ayn Rand
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. View quote
Ayn Rand
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. View quote
Ayn Rand
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. (Ayn Rand)
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. View quote
Ayn Rand
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread. View quote
Ayn Rand
An individualist is a man who says: "I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself." View quote
Ayn Rand
The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence. View quote
Ayn Rand