Quotes About Men

men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they make it under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

As Thomas Hobbes noted in 1651, "Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

In the 1854 classic Walden, Henry David Thoreau famously wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." How a recluse living in a cabin on a pond could know this was never made clear, and the mass of men beg to differ.

Our current moral understanding does not seek to balance the interests of a woman not to be raped, the interests of the men who may wish to rape her, and the interests of the husband and fathers who want to monopolize her sexuality. In an upending of the traditional valuation, the woman's ownership of her body counts for everything, and the interests of all other claimants count for nothing.

Also, since people tend to get less violent as they get older, keeping men in prison beyond a certain point does little to reduce crime.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say "Well it's only symbolic that women are nature", it's like no, it's not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can't get more like nature than that, in fact it's the very definition of nature.

Women have been making men self-conscious since the beginning of time. They do this primarily by rejecting them—but they also do it by shaming them, if men do not take responsibility.

Things fall apart of their own accord, but the sins of men speed their deterioration: that is wisdom from the ages. It

It is to women's clear advantage that men do not happily put up with dependency among themselves. Part of the reason that so many a working-class woman does not marry, now, as we have alluded to, is because she does not want to look after a man, struggling for employment, as well as her children. And fair enough.

This is the pattern of behaviour continually represented in the sexually explicit literary fantasies that are as popular among women as provocative images of naked women are among men.)

It looks to me like the so-called oppression of the patriarchy was instead an imperfect collective attempt by men and women, stretching over millennia, to free each other from privation, disease, and drudgery...

But the capacity of women to shame men and render them self-conscious is still a primal force of nature.

As coisas desmoronam por vontade própria, mas os pecados dos homens aceleram sua degeneração.

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.

In una notte di orrore, gli uomini hanno inventato l'arte.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

I have had to believe much in God because I have stopped believing in men.

Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.