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- Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
- Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
- I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without…
- Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain…
- At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner…
- The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with…
- Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we…
- Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need…
- It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
- Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he…
- What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
- What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
- Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
- A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
- Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center…
- Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
- I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I…
- Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
- Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
- Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
- How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man…
- Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights.…
- Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand…
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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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle