A Man Is Defined By Quotes

#1. To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Luke Rhinehart

#2. The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.

Gary Ferguson

#3. But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined all along the road which leads up to it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. In a society where the degradation of man was (and is still) being proclaimed, humans defined in lowly terms, and Deity described as an abstract, impersonal concept, the heavens were opened and God and his Son Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and taught him the real nature of man. 14.

Gilbert W. Scharffs

#5. He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

Janet Evanovich

#6. Every man is defined by his deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

James Dobson

#9. In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#10. Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ...

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

Elsie Clews Parsons

#12. Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a

George Will

#13. Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

Marion G. Romney

#14. The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Yoshida Kenko

#15. A virgin is defined as someone pure, innocent. It is also described as not yet explored or exploited by man.

Alessandra Torre

#16. Manhood is defined and decided by the ability to nurture and to protect, by the capability to provide and to sustain.

C. JoyBell C.

#17. What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

Archibald MacLeish

#18. Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

Kirk Cameron

#19. A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. I was determined to be both pretty and fierce, as Mother had said I could be. Just because I was interested in a man's job didn't mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow? "Truly,

Kerri Maniscalco

#21. We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be a great man, but more importantly, maybe a happy one. There's

Mark Lawrence

#22. In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#23. For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Dennis Prager

#24. Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

Randall Jarrell

#25. Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Randy Neugebauer

#26. When General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

Randall Jarrell

#27. A man is not defined by one allegiance alone... If he were, then reason would have no value, nor would loyalty have meaning.

Krishna Udayasankar

#28. Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.

Albert Ellis

#29. In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.

Lee Thomas

#30. A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.

Suketu Mehta

#31. Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.

Tom Turner

#32. It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

Scott Weiland

#33. The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.

Michael R. Fletcher

#34. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Juliet Marillier

#35. Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

Jane Taylor

#37. Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Oliver Goldsmith

#38. Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Cavett Robert

#39. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Nenia Campbell

#40. The idea that someone, man or woman, should receive any kind of extra attention or affection or popularity or respect or adulation, simply because of a quirk of genetics and some arbitrary male-media-defined subjective notion of 'beauty' seems to me inherently wrong and unacceptable.

David Nicholls

#41. I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Oscar Wilde

#42. What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.

Oscar Wilde

#43. Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#44. In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#45. Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

Samuel Smiles

#46. The colonel laughed, effectively halting Bingley's speech. "Uncharacteristically reclusive? Do we speak if the same man? Darcy's very character is defined by his reclusiveness! He prefers to keep his own counsel, especially when he ought to do the opposite - the bacon-brained buffoon.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#47. A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Walter Lippmann

#48. A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Gaston Bachelard

#49. I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend ... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Bill Frist

#50. Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Peter Drucker

#51. He talked about what he believed defined a Real Man: someone who had honor, curiosity, respect for women, and took responsibility for his people.

Jeff Hobbs

#52. Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

Charlton Laird

#53. The future cannot be defined by men.
God foresees and foreknow the future because transcends time and all knowledgeable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

Louisa May Alcott

#55. I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

Ariel Pink

#56. For it was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man.

Renee Ahdieh

#57. Any man is defined by the woman who shares her bed with him.

Kristen Ashley

#58. Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

Aldous Huxley

#59. Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.

Mario Puzo

#60. We're not to do everything man tells us to do. We are to obey the Lord Jesus Christ, and our allegiance to the state is limited and defined by our superior allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Joseph C. Morecraft III