Quotes on Men

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

The greatness of work is inside man.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.