Quotes on Men

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.