Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
Quotes about man
A collection of quotes on the topic of man, doing, life, other.
Quotes about man
“Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Man invented the car to comfortably sit in jams.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
Marek Żukow-Karczewski (1961) Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist
Gardens and orchards in the old Poland, "Aura" 11, 1987-11, p.17-18. http://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/508860
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“Everything is predestined in life except the destiny of a man.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“A man's greatness is determined by his heart not by the caste and the lineage he brings.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
मुनामदन (Munamadan)
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.
Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)
Niall Horan (1993) Irish singer and songwriter
Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Variant: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit
Source: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
http://rocknrollworldmagazine.com/2015/08/82915-rock-history/
“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) Polish physician and writer
Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun
Source: The Setting Sun
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
In conversation with Timothée Chalamet for i-D Magazine (2 November 2018) https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/evwwma/harry-styles-interviews-timothee-chalamet-photos
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Not found in Lenin's Collected Works. Began to surface on the internet in the mid-1990s.
Misattributed
Variant: One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_XX-XX-1985_-_Unknown.
“Just remember all caps when you spell the man name”
MF Doom (1971) hip hop artist from America
As Madvillain, "ALL CAPS", Madvillainy (2004)
Sourced Lines
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and …
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Adolf Hitler book Mein Kampf
1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)
Source: Mein Kampf
Context: Jewry is a Folk with a racial core that is not wholly unitary. Nevertheless, as a Folk, it has special intrinsic characteristics which separate it from all other Folks living on the globe. Jewry is not a religious community, but the religious bond between Jews; rather is in reality the momentary governmental system of the Jewish Folk. The Jew has never had a territorially bounded State of his own in the manner of Aryan States. Nevertheless, his religious community is a real State, since it guarantees the preservation, the increase and the future of the Jewish Folk. But this is solely the task of the State. That the Jewish State is subject to no territorial limitation, as is the case with Aryan States, is connected with the character of the Jewish Folk, which is lacking in the productive forces for the construction and preservation of its own territorial State.
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
Bertrand Russell book A History of Western Philosophy
Source: 1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Zayn Malik (1993) British singer
Let Me for his partner on young people not knowing what to come in the future if it is too faraway into the future
Song lyrics
“No man knows fully what has shaped his own thinking”
Robert K. Merton book Social Theory and Social Structure
Source: Social Theory and Social Structure (1949), p. ix (1957 edition)
Xenophon book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 29.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
Context: That... is the road to the obedience of compulsion. But there is a shorter way to a nobler goal, the obedience of the will. When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves. You may prove this on all sides: you may see how the sick man will beg the doctor to tell him what he ought to do, how a whole ship’s company will listen to the pilot.
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 6
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Context: We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
“Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him”
Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar
“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
George Orwell book Coming Up for Air
Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Often misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche. <br class="br">Source: As quoted from “Interview with an Immoral,” Arthur Gordon, Reader’s Digest (July 1959). Reprinted in the Kipling Society journal, “Six Hours with Rudyard Kipling”, Vol. XXXIV. No. 162 (June, 1967) pp. 5-8. Interview took place in June, 1935 https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/KJ162.pdf <br class="br">Context: Looking back, I think he knew that in my innocence I was eager to love everything and please everybody, and he was trying to warn me not to lose my own identity in the process. Time after time he came back to this theme. " The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Il est encore plus facile de juger de l'esprit d'un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses. (It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers) — Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de Lévis (1764-1830), Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808): Maxim xviii
Misattributed
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Handwritten note published in People (12 October 1987)
“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists
Letter to The Times (26 April, 1968), p. 11.
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Source: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 262.[[Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.]]
Context: The Italian command was, for the most part, not equal to the task of carrying on war in the desert, where the requirement was lightning decision followed by immediate action. The training of the Italian infantryman fell far short of the standard required by modern warfare. … Particularly harmful was the all pervading differentiation between officer and man. While the men had to make shift without field-kitchens, the officers, or many of them, refused adamantly to forgo their several course meals. Many officers, again, considered it unnecessary to put in an appearance during battle and thus set the men an example. All in all, therefore, it was small wonder that the Italian soldier, who incidentally was extraordinarily modest in his needs, developed a feeling of inferiority which accounted for his occasional failure and moments of crisis. There was no foreseeable hope of a change for the better in any of these matters, although many of the bigger men among the Italian officers were making sincere efforts in that direction.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Man's Greatest Achievement (1908; 1930)
Context: According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
Xenophon book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 29.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898) Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
