Quotes about men
men accountability morality
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. Archibald Alexander
men hell he-man
The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman. Aretha Franklin
men white black
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
men world way
But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough. Aravind Adiga
men worry people
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
men past spit
If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
men done world
Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?
men stories body
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
men past growing
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
men practice atheism
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable. Archibald MacLeish
men animal guilt
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
men wish journalism
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
men forever medusa
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
men dignity personal-dignity
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
men absurdity-of-life opposites
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
men thinking america
The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.
men practice quality
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
men determined officers
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. Anthony Wayne
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men good-man states
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
men agents instruments
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else. Ben Nicholson
men hands long
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care. Ben Marcus
men able sometimes
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. Ben Okri
men voice female
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them. Barbara Kruger
men erode want
We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable. Barbara Jordan
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.
men joy doe
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? Barbara Kingsolver
men jewels kingdoms
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
men sound earth
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
men way faults
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
men thinking views
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
men merit should
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. Bainbridge Colby
men essence light
Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.