Quotes about men
men roots genuine
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. Jose Marti
men race rights
Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.
men humanity together
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
men race rights
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
men squares use
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20. Jose Mourinho
men player waiting
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
men self complacency
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. Jose Ortega y Gasset
men power metaphor
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man
men frustration aggravation
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
men europe giving
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
men hunting historical
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
men worst adaptability
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
men noble-man order
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
men novelists originals
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
men centaurs half
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.
men determine
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
men limits pilgrimage
Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.
men generations great-men
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.
men history
Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history.
men mediocre nations
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
men acquisition precarious
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
men civilization roots
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success.
men heaven facts
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst. Jose Bergamin
men thinking only-time
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
men drunk coward
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
men doe slave
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
men simplicity world
The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. Jorge Luis Borges
men alternatives fiction
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
men ignorant corny
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
men scope knows
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
men two chess-pieces
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.
men drawing labyrinth
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
men garden humanity
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.