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Man Quotes by Walt Whitman
- Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him…
- I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me…
- This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for…
- THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any…
- There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town,…
- A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the…
- I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a…
- There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels;…
- I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to…
- Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading…
- There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take…
- Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
- Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of…
- The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
- Many a good man I have seen go under.
- I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
- The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of…
- The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city…
- And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
- Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you…
- A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
- I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as…
- The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of…
- Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring…
- This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for…
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- 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