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Quotes About Men

The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men and worlds.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.
~ Isaac Asimov
Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not understand (Computers might, but he himself certainly did not), their abstraction from Time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort Reality as was the abstraction of a man.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of the top men. But the secrets are shrouded in ritual and religion, and may use them.
~ Isaac Asimov
An incompetent traitor is no danger. It is rather the capable men who must be watched.
~ Isaac Asimov
In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.
~ Isaac Asimov
It's really disheartening, the universal stupidity. I think that I wouldn't grieve at mankind's suicide through sheer evilness of heart, or through mere recklessness. There's something so damned undignified at going to destruction through sheer thickheaded stupidity. What's the use of being men if that's how you have to die.
~ Isaac Asimov
Oh, men have no compassion on themselves!
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
La violencia contra las mujeres es universal y tan antigua como la civilización misma. Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violencia doméstica
~ Isabel Allende
but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.
~ Isabel Allende
Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.
~ Isabel Allende
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat us & destroy us. But remember that bold women are like cockroaches: step on one & others come running from the corners.
~ Isabel Allende
We have something weird in our brains, a sort of tumor that propels us toward love. We can't live without it. Out of love we put up with children and men. Our self-denial is a form of servitude. Have you noticed that individualism and selfishness are considered positive traits in men and defects in women? We
~ Isabel Allende
The truth is that men control political and economic power—they make the laws and apply them at their convenience—
~ Isabel Allende
En mi juventud bregaba por la igualdad, quería participar en el juego de los hombres, pero en la madurez comprendí que ese juego es una locura, está destruyendo el planeta y el tejido moral de la humanidad.
~ Isabel Allende
Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
~ Letitia Baldrige
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Fire tries gold, misfortune men.
~ Anonymous
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
~ J. K. Galbraith
Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.
~ Russian proverb
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
~ George MacDonald
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.
~ General George S. Patton
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings