Richard Wagner Men Quotations

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...