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Man Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in…
- Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream…
- Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
- Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in…
- A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
- But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for…
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