Quotes about men
men duty extremes
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty. Edmund Burke
men thinking design
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
men power-of-now made
Man made God in his own image... Eckhart Tolle
men ideas perfection
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. Elihu Root
men world may
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
men order two
I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.
men childhood age
Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways. Elie Wiesel
men laughing suffering
A man can laugh while he suffers.
men world definitions
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
men soul depth
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
men blessing years
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always must remember that it is given to men and women to choose life and living, not death and destruction.
men victim executioners
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
men evil heaven
Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
men meaning-of-life life-is
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
men compassion anchors
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
men offering fellow-man
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
men sacred sparks
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
men forever levels
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.
men suffering concern
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
men genocide destruction
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
men age matter
A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so. Edward P. Jones
men voice style
His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation. Edward Seaga
men due-process-of-law remember
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Edward R. Murrow
men careers purpose
Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
men wish body
A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
men discovery fire
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
men order justice
All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences. Edward Said
men choices-made historical
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.
men silence shapes
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.
men waiting tides
As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man. Edward Norton
men animal spun
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. Clifford Geertz
men logic ifs
If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
men thinking presidential
Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face. Conan O'Brien