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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

George Santayana

Man

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

Dignity

Man

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

George Santayana

Power