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Quotes About Men

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
~ Immanuel Kant
The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.
~ Izabella Scorupco
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.
~ Jackson Katz
There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.
~ James Bryant Conant
My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home
~ James Levine
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.
~ James Madison
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
~ James Russell Lowell
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
~ James Russell Lowell
If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.
~ James Stewart
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
~ Jane Smiley
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
~ Jenna Elfman
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
~ Jennifer Beals
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
~ Joanna Baillie
In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.
~ Joanna Southcott
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
~ Johannes Kepler
I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
~ John Davis Long