Quotes about men
men animal lovable
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal. Edward Abbey
men enemy he-man
Beware of the man who has no enemies.
men numbers succeed
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
men levers littles
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
men empty
An empty man is full of himself.
men cities feet
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
men people dangerous-man
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
men long dams
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.
men animal vanity
The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself - not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
men hands feet
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. Eddie Redmayne
men artist forty
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. Aubrey Beardsley
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.