Concentration camp Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“In the concentration camps...we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know…

— Ambrose Bierce

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“There are two sides to each man’s life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Men behaves according to their beliefs.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking…

— Emil Cioran

“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.”

— Ernest Becker

“At the beginning of human history, man lost some of the basic animal instincts in which an animal's behavior is embedded and by which…

— Viktor Emil Frankl

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen

“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are abstract, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

— Evan Esar

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even…

— Anonymous