Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham Maslow

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

Abraham Maslow

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Abraham Maslow

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Abraham Maslow

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Abraham Lincoln

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Abraham Lincoln

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Abraham Lincoln

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Abraham Lincoln

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

Abraham Lincoln

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.

Abraham Lincoln

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

Abraham Lincoln

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Alexander Hamilton

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.

Alexander Hamilton

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

Alex Pettyfer

I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

Alex Pettyfer

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.