Quotes about men
men fists males
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson. Auberon Waugh
men
Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so. Atul Gawande
men animal political
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle
men hurtful good-things
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
men next-day forever
Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.
men favour coins
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
men special demand
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
men soul good-man
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
men matter firsts
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
men essence
All men are alike when asleep.
men excellence oligarchy
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.
men angry-man hatred
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
men simplicity ears
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.
men born nature-of-man
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
men sake he-man
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
men desire awareness
All men desire by nature to know.
men evil together
Evil draws men together.
men said ought
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
men hands democracy
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
men evil together
Evils draw men together.
men beast he-man
The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.
men law political
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
men political royal
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue ..
men tragedy action
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
men law differences
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.
men perfect soul
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
men evil liberty
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
men religion atheism
Men create the gods after their own images.
men order opinion
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
men class slave
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
men views purpose
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
men desire sisyphus
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
men soul excellence
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.