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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. -- Joseph de Maistre
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. -- Walter Bagehot
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. -- Hank Azaria
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. -- Benjamin Disraeli
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension. -- Jack Coleman
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. -- Novalis
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. -- Samuel Johnson
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance. -- David Novak
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. -- Hanna Rosin
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition. -- Samuel Pepys
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. -- Leonard Susskind
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.' -- James Rosenquist
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. -- Lester B. Pearson
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape. -- Hank Azaria
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.' -- Maj Sjowall
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. -- Viktor E. Frankl
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell. -- Jan Hus
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. -- Oscar Wilde
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. -- Jane Austen
In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. -- George Crabbe
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am the attorney general of the United States, but I am also a black man. -- Eric Holder
I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man, -- Eric Holder
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general. -- Snoop Dogg
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous. -- Marquis de Lafayette
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. -- Leo Tolstoy
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. -- Charles Studd
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. -- Carl Jung
To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. -- Sidney Morgenbesser
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. -- Alexander Hamilton
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. -- Bertolt Brecht
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. -- Sun Tzu
As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. -- E. W. Howe
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution. -- John Fowles
For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger. -- Pericles
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. -- John Stuart Mill
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws. -- Henry Van Dyke
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. -- Benjamin Butler
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. -- Irving Kristol
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. -- Joseph Butler
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place. -- Thomas Jefferson
In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. -- E. B. White
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army. -- Robert E. Lee
I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly. -- H. Rider Haggard
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general. -- Samuel Richardson
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. -- Samuel Johnson
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. -- Charles Horton Cooley
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward. -- Ellsworth Huntington
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. -- Carl Jung
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. -- Mark Twain
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. -- William Blackstone
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty. -- Maria Edgeworth
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity. -- James K. Polk
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. -- Philip Danforth Armour

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