Quotes about men
men care politics
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned. Aristotle
men tyrants doubt
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?
men politics politician
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
men host popularity
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
men animal law
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
men feelings firsts
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
men thinking nerves
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
men use speech
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
men politics action
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
men goal
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
men self cost
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
men evil hatred
Evil brings men together.
men tragedy comedy
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
men melancholy great-men
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
men joy favors
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
men law cities
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
men two sick
Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
men giving fishes
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
men differences huffing
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark. Ben Hecht
men envy guilt
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
men stupidest connected
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
men thinking misunderstood
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood. Ben Kingsley
men play choices
I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.
men play roles
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
men age aging
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
men good-man pebbles
It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man. Ben Harper
men action every-man
Every man's actions belong to him.
men interviews lifetime
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
men glasses speech
No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech. Ben Jonson
men benefits might
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
men deities fortune
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
men cigarette-smoke smoking
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
men office good-man
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.