Quotes About Men

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.

For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, "history originated as myth" and becomes a "social memory" to which men can appeal, "knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions." If

The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus—in short, mad.

To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat,

Christine makes it her own in the prologue, where she sits weeping and ashamed, wondering why men "are so unanimous in attributing wickedness to women" and why "we should be worse than men since we were also created by God.

the ruling class in a just society should be men apprenticed to the art of ruling, drawn from the rational and wise.

It is a singular fact that men generally, and every man in particular, constantly endeavor to desert real life for one which is altogether artificial, artistic, and, in a word, ideal. The ideal is an image of perfection created by the soul itself.

Certain of the angels having fallen, God made men, that they might take their vacated places.

an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

You've all been asleep, you would not believe me Them voices telling me, you will soon receive me Standing on the beach, the sea will part before me (Fire wheel burning in the air!) You will follow me and we will ride to glory (Way up the middle of the air!) And I'll call down thunder and speak the same And my work fills the sky with flame And might and glory going to be my name And men going to light my way

Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said. "Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history?

But the framers were not visionaries. They knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. Government represents power in the hands of some men to control and regulate the lives of other men. And power, as Lord Acton said, corrupts men. "Absolute power," he added, "corrupts absolutely.

The turn will come when we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand that their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se queda. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Habla, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se quedan. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Hablan, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

It must not be thought that the devil tempts only men of genius. He doubtless scorns imbeciles, but he does not disdain their assistance. Quite the contrary, he founds great hopes on them.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.