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Quotes About Men

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
~ Ayn Rand
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
~ Erica Jong
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
~ Don DeLillo
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.
~ Linda Howard
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
~ Tad Williams
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
~ William Butler Yeats
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
~ William Graham Sumner
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.
~ Auliq Ice
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.
~ Edward Thomas
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
~ Homer
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.
~ Philip Larkin
We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.
~ Grace Paley
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
~ Irma Joubert, Persomi
I'd prefer 'Bonnie Blue Flag', if you take requests…" Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.
~ C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed
The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.
~ Felix O. Hartmann, Dark Age
Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
~ Terry Kay
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.
~ Parke Godwin
But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.
~ Iris Johansen
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.
~ Wouter Van Gastel
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.
~ Paul Allor, TET