Quotes with man-being

Quotes 5521 till 5540 of 6261.

  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Susan Sontag War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • B. F. Skinner Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Water is the only drink for a wise man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Anne Frank We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Eden Phillpotts We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
    Eden Phillpotts
    English author, poet and dramatist (1862 - 1960)
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • William James We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Edward Dahlberg We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Betty Dodson We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Billy Joel We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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