Quotes on Men

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Men become old, but they never become good.

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public