One Man Quotes - Page 18

• Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Christian, Men, Understanding

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• Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Repentance, Should

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• The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.

  Gerry Spence

  Powerful, Attitude, Independent

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.223, St. Martin's Press

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Mean, Men

  Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 487), 1996.

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• One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

  Roger Bacon

  Men, Bishops, Known

  "Opis Majus". Book by Roger Bacon, edited by Samuel Jebb, p. 45, 1733.

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• I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

  James Van Allen

  Army, Men, Together

  "Grounded in Space Science". "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, (p. 14), December 22, 1989.

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• An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

  William James

  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Asia

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.69

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• I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Dog, Honesty

  "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294, 1875.

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• Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Generosity, Receiving

  "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen", 1966.

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• Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Differences, Mind

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Passion, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.

  William Blackstone

  Exercise, Men, Imagination

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...

  William Golding

  War, Men, Years

  "The Hot Gates". Book by William Golding, 1965.

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• In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

  Booker T. Washington

  Country, Men, Law

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Doe, Bragging

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Differences, Prostitution

  Letters from aWar Zone: Writings 1976 - 1989 "Feminism: An Agenda" (1988).

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• Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

  Alexander Pope

  Loss, Men, Common Sense

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse; and where there is equally vigorous effort, like distinction and success will almost surely follow. Thus the chain of example is carried down through time in an endless succession of links--admiration exciting imitation, and perpetuating the true aristocracy of genius.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Flames

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.528, The Floating Press

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• Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Men, Complaining

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Science, Men, Space

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• One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Men, May

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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