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Quotes About Men

and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),
~ Romano Guardini
Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel.
~ Ron Chernow
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
~ Ron Dart
Then the night lessened, the clouds ashened slightly, and the men became starkly black and brown against the gray of the snow.
~ Ron Hansen
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
~ Ron Paul
Just as we should stand against the objectification of women, we too, should stand against dangerous stereotypes that liken men to animals on the prowl, ruled primarily by raging hormones and uncontrollable impulses. This is an insult to principled men who exhibit great respect for women and value them for their personhood, rather than their collective parts.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.
~ Ronald Syme
Sexist language promotes and maintains attitudes that stereotype people according to gender while assuming that the male is the norm—the significant gender. Nonsexist language treats both sexes equally and either does not refer to a person's sex when it is irrelevant or refers to men and women and to girls and boys in symmetrical ways.
~ Rosalie Maggio
These official men with their satisfied soft faces. He hated their approval just as much as he hated their condescension. And yet this truth was buried so deep inside him that its expression only emerged, in their presence, as a friendly smile.
~ Louise Erdrich
Why did you stay so faithful? Oh, I wasn't so good—I was just tired of them. Men. They're stressful. You'll see.
~ Louise Erdrich
I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'
~ Louise Rennison
It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Men are the thing to be afraid of, always, men and nothing else.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
After all, when our egoism lets us go for a while, when it comes time to throw it off, the only women whose memory you cherish in your hearts are the ones who really loved men a little, not just one man, even if it was you, but the whole lot.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
C'est des hommes et d'eux seulement qu'il faut avoir peur, toujours.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Silks ... China ... Men's Suits ... but what about canes? ... or crutches? Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ero un bambino allora, mi faceva paura la prigione. È che non conoscevo ancora gli uomini. Non crederò più a quello che dicono, a quello che pensano. È degli uomini e di loro soltanto che bisogna aver paura, sempre.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life, the true mistress of all real men—would have tricked me as it tricks everyone else. We
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No volveré a creer nunca en lo que dicen, lo que piensan. De los hombres, y de ellos sólo, es de quien hay que tener miedo, siempre.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little. In
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Men are like tigers," Rumer said. "They don't change their stripes.
~ Luanne Rice
Mi basterà, stai sicura, questa indifferenza, per aver coraggio, non già davanti a un uomo, che è nulla; ma davanti a tutti e sempre. Vivo in tal clima, cara che posso non curarmi di niente; della morte come della vita, figurati poi del ridicolo degli uomini e dei loro meschini giudizio. Non temere. Ho capito il giuoco.
~ Luigi Pirandello