Man
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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