Fellow Man Quotes - Page 4

• In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Washington Irving (1866). “The Works of Washington Irving ...: Oliver Goldsmith; The sketch book”

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• When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Forgiving, Blame

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.258, Random House

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• The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Eulogy: Ted Kennedy's Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy". www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

  Amy Grant

  Peace, Men, Hands

  Song: Helping Hand, Album: House of Love, 1994

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• The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Artist, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.411, Faber & Faber

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Solitude, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "Maybe I'm too clever". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2004.

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• You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Religious, Men, Silence

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• I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Frugal, Labor

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

  Abba Eban

  Ambition, Men, Evil

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!

  Jack LaLanne

  Tired, Heart, Men

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• Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Vanity, Occupation

  P.T. BARNUM (1866). “THE HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD”, p.220

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• If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Attitude, Teaching

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Opinion, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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• Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

  Robert D. Hales

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Kindness, Men, Doe

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.322, TAN Books

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• And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Men, Democracy

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.261, Hackett Publishing

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• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

  John Fowles

  Life, Attitude, Equality

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Weakness, Littles

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• Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Men, Race, Ungrateful

  Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”

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• For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  War, Passion, Men

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• Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Ministers

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• ...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Men, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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