„No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„And Christ himself, who preached the life of love, was yet as lonely as any man that ever lived. Yet I could not say that he was mistaken because he preached the life of love and fellowship, and lived and died in loneliness; nor would I dare assert his way was wrong because a billion men have since professed his way and never followed it.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„In philosophical anthropology, … where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.“
— Martin Buber
„A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.“
— Ayn Rand
„It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.“
— B.F. Skinner