Quotes on Men

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Bad men are full of repentance.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Observe all men, thyself most.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.