Quotes About Men

Just as it is not the penis that commits rape, and not testosterone that drives it and not overwhelming sexual desire either, castration whether surgical or chemical will not eliminate men's hatred of women.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

C6 Now Vico here agrees with Aristotle. When he calls the world of nations the world of men, he means that what were beasts in the world of nature become men in the world of nations, and it is by the becoming of the world of nations that they become men. Or, as he puts it otherwise, in a sense they make the world of nations, and in the same sense they make themselves by making it [367, 520, 692].

The greatness of God alone, is greater than the greatness of many great men combined.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

There again, the acceleration of history is the job of ruthless men.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

Metaphysics, whatever it may be, seems still to lead men astray much more than any physics.

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

A questa città vorrei dire: gli uomini passano, le idee restano. Restano le loro tensioni morali e continueranno a camminare sulle gambe di altri uomini.»

Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro.

sono un uomo comune e quindi mi pare, parlando di me e dei miei, di fare un po' la storia dei milioni e milioni di uomini comuni che, con la loro assennata mediocrità, tengono in piedi la baracca di questo mondo. Quella baracca che gli uomini "eccezionali", gli uomini "fuori dal comune" tentano di scardinare con la loro genialità.

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Poucas coisas são mais tristes do que os lugares de poder abandonados, onde os fantasmas do passado são mais fortes do que os homens de carne e osso que se obstinam em habitá-

Do you know how few men there are worth having?

She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Se prego in cuor mio che la consapevolezza e il dibattito pubblico porteranno a una riforma, so anche che le politiche degli uomini mutano nel tempo, e persino la Costituzione viene sovvertita quando la fame di potere lo richiede. Traendo insegnamento dalla storia, dunque, non si parli più di fiducia nell'uomo, ma si vincoli quest'ultimo, contro il mal fare, con le catene della crittografia.

It can be argued that doo-wop is a great, unequivocal uniter of white men of a certain age and temperament.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.