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Man Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
- If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
- Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a…
- It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
- What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking…
- What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he…
- Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of…
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish…
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