“A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon.”

“A man who is at peace with himself is less likely to turn into an extremist or a terrorist.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

“We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.”

Virginia Woolf The Common Reader

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

“There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

“The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”

Jill Johnston book Lesbian Nation