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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
- Nov 07, 2020
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020