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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. — Henry Clarke Wright

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal. — Swami Vivekananda

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I ... am ... a man! — Joseph Merrick

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men? — Regis Philbin

We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power. — Atiq Rahimi

It is your virtue, being men, to try;
And it is ours, by virtue to deny. — Michael Drayton

God ... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man ... — Bruce R. McConkie

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. — Swami Vivekananda

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. — Pat Conroy

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him. — Bertolt Brecht

Being with men can be exciting and pleasurable, yes. But take my word for it, they are not as wonderful as they think they are." - Cyane — M.M. Kin

It is something about having absolute power over another being that drives men to incomprehensible acts of cruelty. — Mark Tufo

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation. — Elbert Hubbard

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being. — Brigham Young

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. — Gloria Steinem

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being. — Edward Schillebeeckx

Men ... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage. — Darrel Ray

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. — Whitney Houston

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave. — Jack Donovan

They say best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad — William Shakespeare

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself. — Bliss Carman

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron. — Samuel

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. — Mignon McLaughlin

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad. — William Shakespeare

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools. — P.C. Cast

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being. — William E. Gladstone

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow. — Democritus

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. — Channing Pollock

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous. — Charles Baudelaire

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If people could hear our thoughts, very few of us would escape from being locked away as mad men. — Jacinto Benavente

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. — Orison Swett Marden

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women. — Samuel Johnson

That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy. — Mindy Kaling

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it. — Emile Durkheim

Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. — Oswald Mosley

Little girls fear being a princess that was never rescued but little boys fear being a prince that was too late. — Tommy Tran

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything. — Manuel Puig

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman

The profound meaning of music's essential aim ... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being — Igor Stravinsky

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. — Jean De La Bruyere

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you. — C. JoyBell C.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God. — Sheila Walsh

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain. — Criss Jami

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do? — Rodrigo Santoro

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I have never been comfortable being the front man. — Tom Petty

Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life? — Robert Frost

Man is the greatest being that ever can be. — Swami Vivekananda

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on. — Jane Fonda

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. — Epicurus

Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice. — Edwin Louis Cole

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. — Ridley Scott

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman). — Paulo Coelho

A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. — Lord Chesterfield

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. — James Russell Lowell

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am. — John Petrucci

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. — Erica Jong

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is. — Margaret Atwood

Discontented women dream of being rescued by Prince Charming. Discontented men dream of finding a horny blond in the back seat ofa taxi. — Mason Cooley

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist — Kwame Nkrumah

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals — Swami Vivekananda

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey. — Steve Harvey

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class — Charles Bukowski

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion. — Ian K. Smith

I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men who believe in nothing. I have to change that. — J-Ax

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family. — Carlos Beltran

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Moliere

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' — Julie Burchill

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. — Hannah More

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that. — Louis L'Amour

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety. — Christopher Hitchens

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America. — John Edwards

A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear. — Greg Dybec

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man. — James M. Barrie

Far from being laws to protect women, antipolygamy statutes may really do more to protect men. — Matt Ridley

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? — Herman Melville

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else. — Flip Wilson

Nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. — Chuck Palahniuk

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? — Lin Yutang

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel. — Willa Holland

A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them. — Confucius