Quotes on Men

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The man of humanity delights in mountains