Quotes about men
men animal society
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. Eric Hoffer
men noble-man atrocities-committed
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
men bad-company company
A man by himself is in bad company.
men mind snooping
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,
men hands brotherhood-of-man
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
men omnipotence cities
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
men ideas evil
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
men plot purpose
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
men survival kind
The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
men practice play
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
men age answers
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
men beloved slave
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one. Eric Berne
men knowing disappear
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. Empedocles
men world
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
men years doctors
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. Enid Bagnold
men acting ordinary
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces. Enid Blyton
men want married
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?' Emraan Hashmi
men imagination nigeria-independence
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. Enoch Powell
men games pet
One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game. Emo Philips
men play chess
I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.
men ideas insecurity
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist. Emmanuelle Chriqui
men different cases
How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women. Emmeline Pankhurst
men sorrow bitterness
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
men speech revolution
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
men views hands
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.
men morality accepting
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.
men suffragists consent
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
men justice violence
If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.
men blood battle
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
men white white-man
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized... James F. Cooper
men views media
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
men may unbroken
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
men selfishness world
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.