“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
No man is born with the purpose to change the world for the better ... but also not to make it worse. — Ruediger Schaefer Copy Share Image
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.” — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Father said man was born a praying animal, and no matter how wicked he was, if he had an accident, or saw… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“was I Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disastrous world of ours.—I wish I had been born in the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages.… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image