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Quotes About Men

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
~ George Steiner
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
~ D. H. Lawrence
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
~ Bram Stoker
You cannot make men good by law.
~ C. S. Lewis
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
~ C. Wright Mills
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
~ Carl Jung
Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne
~ Charles Spurgeon
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
~ Coco Chanel
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
~ Confucius
Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.
~ David Brainerd
Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."
~ Diogenes
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
~ Dorothy Parker
Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.
~ Henri Barbusse
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
~ Henry Mackenzie
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
~ Herbert Spencer
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.
~ J.R. Miller
There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
~ James Crumley
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.
~ Lin Yutang