One Man Quotes - Page 5

• The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Long, People

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• Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

  Robert Fulghum

  Truth, Regret, Believe

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.228, Ballantine Books

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• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Thinking, Laughing

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.40, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Profound, Mystery

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.62, Image

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• We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”, E P Dutton

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• Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Heaven

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.182, Seven Stories Press

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• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Blessed, Science

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS

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• Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Team, Men, Games

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• A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

  Rudyard Kipling

  Brother, Men, Half

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…”, p.2753, e-artnow

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• Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Play, People

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• To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Men, Age

  "Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton". Book by Richard S. Westfall, p. 643, 1983.

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• This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire, “Anywhere Out Of The World”

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• Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am.

  Henry Miller

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Black Spring".

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• One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Insanity, Genius

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• One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.

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  Sherry Argov

  Beautiful, Men, Ugly

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

  Homer

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Men, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

  Lucretius

  Food, Men, Poison

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• The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Intelligent, Men, Vanity

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• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.  Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.  Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her.  Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child.  Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Blessed, Men

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• To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Educational, Men, May

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• I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Judging, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.124, Stanford University Press

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