The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.
The moment a wife decides to break her marriage vow she reckons her husband as everything or nothing.
The miserable’s name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
The maturity of man — that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
The man who is being punished is no longer he who has done the deed. He is always the scapegoat.