Men Quotes

• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • War
  • True
  • Numbers

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Knowledge
  • Read
  • Amusement

• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Hand
  • Positive

• This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Team
  • Moon
  • Explore

• God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Community

• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • War
  • Wish
  • Hand

• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • God
  • May
  • Rest

• My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Kind
  • Focus
  • Quiet

• I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Mysterious

• Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Bird
  • Boys
  • Whiskey

• In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Work
  • American
  • Black

• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  

  Vanity
  • Men
  • High
  • Balance

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Black

• I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

  Lana Turner
  • She
  • Girl
  • Find

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• Some men are born posthumously.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Born
  • Posthumously

• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Nature
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Life
  • God
  • Together

• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Exercise
  • Equality

• That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Son

• Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

  

  Confucius
  • Men
  • Mountains
  • Hills

• In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Understanding

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