Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.