One Man Quotes - Page 15

• If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

  Propertius

  Girl, Taken, Men

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Men, Saint

  Ken Kesey (1965). “Sometimes a great notion”

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• Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hero, Men, Perfect

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• You can just fight one man at a time.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Men

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• Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Men, Ego

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• Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Rain, Men, Names

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• In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.

  Ken Blackwell

  Men, Civilization, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

  John Boehner

  Men, Childhood, Belief

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". Unterview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

  Mart Laar

  Growing Up, Crazy, Men

  Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast, March 24, 2010.

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• Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Book, Grateful, Men

  "'Dallas Buyers Club,' 'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' score top Oscar nominations" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. January 16, 2014.

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• A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Determination, Men, Complicated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

  Ronald Lauder

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

  James Corden

  Hard Work, Pride, Men

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• A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

  Bobby Seale

  Men, Hands, America

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  Ice Cube

  Team, Player, Men

  "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Religious, Communication, Men

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• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

  Philemon

  Adversity, Men, Able

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• And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Men, Slippery Slope

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• I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

  J. Paul Getty

  Men, Income, Percent

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• Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Order, Excellence

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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