If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

"Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog."

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why"

"The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man."

"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."

"Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."

"It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race."

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."

"Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability."

"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself."

"When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win"

"`This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,'"