Quotes on Men

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.