Quotes About Men

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

But where men, to the force of appetite and passion, add that of opinion, and are wicked from principle, there will be more men wicked, and those more incurably and outrageously so.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

a bemused Lincoln noted how he was bombarded with a range of opinions from "religious men" all "equally certain that they represent the Divine will.

It is a work … outside of us in which God so deals in Christ with the sin of the world, that it shall no longer be a barrier between himself and men … reconciliation, in the New Testament sense, is not something which is being done; it is something which is done.35

While Vincent Taylor has not adequately recognized all that is involved in the death of Christ, he has expressed himself effectively when he says, "The idea that no act of requital is due to a holy God, or is needed by men, is a modern notion which it would be a libel to attribute to the ancient world; and to say that Jesus cannot have spoken of his death in this way is to modernize his figure and his thought."33

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

The men performed their roles like actors trapped in a morality play

Farming is the recreation of great men, the proper pursuit of dull men.

Why him?" he growled. "Of all the men you could have, why would you hire him for that?" "Because he has the best equipment in the city and he knows how to use it!" As soon as I said it, I realized how he would take it. The beginnings of another thundering roar died in Curran's throat. He stared at me, mute.

Do men often tell you you're enchanting? No. Men often tell me I hit very hard. Hint, hint.

It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man.

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.

A nation is not (like the ground on which it is located) a possession. It is a society of men whom no one other than the nation itself can command or dispose of.

Hubert counted nearly 200 men on the road and river bank. In his naïvety he believed that this powerful army would now confront the enemy.

Dictatorship is built around this confusion. Napoleon said he only desired the greatness of France, but he proclaimed to Metternich,11 "I don't give a damn if millions of men live or die.

True politics is simply the drying of tears and the endless fight for freedom. Without freedom there is no art and no truth. I revere great artists and the men who say no to tyrants.

solitary sinister men with terrible secrets — of whom Clement now and forever after must be one.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.