Men Quotes
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A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.
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These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.
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We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
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I often wonder if my being a fairly small Asian woman with a high-pitched quietish voice plays a role in how often men feel entitled to come up to me and tell me, 'You have this doll act,' or whatever.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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I'm going to get controversial here and say that monogamy isn't natural, especially not for men. It's a concept society birthed a few hundred years ago, even though men's DNA is busy telling them to spread the seed.
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Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?
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If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
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When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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Men kan zeggen, je moet je mond houden, maar geen oordeel hebben bestaat niet. Niemand kan een ander zijn oordeel verbieden, al is die ander nog zo jong.
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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
