Man Quotes

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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. — Albert Camus
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. — Albert Camus
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. — Albert Camus
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… — Albert Camus
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.… — Albert Camus
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… — Albert Camus
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in… — Albert Camus
I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and… — Nick Cannon
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just… — Nick Cannon
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social… — Sherman Alexie
Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. — Steve Carell
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in… — Steve Carell
My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together,… — Mariah Carey
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet. — Robert Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. — Thomas Carlyle
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. — Thomas Carlyle
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. — Thomas Carlyle
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. — Thomas Carlyle
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. — Thomas Carlyle
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. — Thomas Carlyle

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