Fellow Man Quotes - Page 8

• I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Fighting, Artist, Men

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• What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

  August Strindberg

  Writing, Men, Skins

  August Strindberg (1969). “The Cloister”

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• Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

  Sigmund Freud

  War, Men, Promise

  Sigmund Freud (1953). “Civilisation, War and Death”

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

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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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• 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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• Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow man, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.

  Pope Pius XII

  Pain, Attitude, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Gentleman, Speak

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

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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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• Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

  William Torrey Harris

  Education, Men, Appreciate

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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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• I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Joyfulness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.79

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• A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?

  Sidney Jourard

  Men, Choices, Wish

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• The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.

  Kurt Hahn

  Men, Compassion, Giving

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• Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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• I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.

  Ralph Bunche

  Religious, Hate, Believe

  Ralph J. Bunche “Fighter for Peace”

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• What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Giving, Understanding

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Being”, Library of Alexandria

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• Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Faith, Dream, Men

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• Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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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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