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Man Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
- Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
- The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
- It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever…
- Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized…
- Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of…
- The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a…
- In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day…
- Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it…
- We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
- He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly…
- God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion…
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god…
- Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle