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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
- St. Augustine
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
- William Law
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
- Abraham Lincoln
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
- CS Lewis
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.
- Carl Jung
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
- DH Lawrence
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
- Dorothy Day
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower