The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Man, all lives matter.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

The little man is still a man.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.