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| Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied |
| Mark Twain |
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| Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species |
| William James |
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| Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand |
| William James |
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| Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of. |
| Douglas Adams |
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| Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives |
| Walter Lippmann |
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