Quotes About Men

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln.

All men are evil, that's what I was talking to my father about." "What did he say?" "Fuck 'em.

Atados a las responsabilidades de ser hijos, hermanos y padres, los hombres no eran libres.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

I agree that is it important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are cause by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.

El miedo, supongo. Hace que los hombres adopten conductas extrañas. Jörmundur

Opposite this was a long bar, a fortress with raised drawbridges that protected casks of lager, ale, and stout from the horde of thirsty men who assailed it from all sides.

Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

not watering the ground with the sap of men's limbs.

As early as June 1931, Hitler commented in an interview that the "extermination of the Armenians" had led him to "the conclusion that masses of men are mere biological plasticine" over which Aryans would eventually triumph.

The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.

Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate "war, pestilence, and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun.

Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.

Es un hombre... extraño. -Es, o ha sido, en muchos aspectos, un gran hombre. Pero precisamente por eso es extraño. Sólo los hombres pequeños parecen normales.

Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » (p. 26)

Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.

o ella lo sedujo a él, como Eloísa sedujo a Abelardo, ¡porque no olvides que a través de la mujer penetra el diablo en el corazón de los hombres!

È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.

Of course it was terrible that men went to war and killed one another; but for that you had to blame nature, not the Budd family.

Very certainly Franklin Roosevelt would never have been able to launch his New Deal if men such as these had not been sowing the seeds of collectivist thought for a couple of generations. When you met the sowers, and discovered what a variety of seeds they carried, you were better able to understand the confusion and groping of the early New Deal.