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Quotes About Men

Porn is also the method men use to imagine what they would do if they were women, how they would apply themselves to satisfy other men, what good sluts they'd be, what prick-devourers.
~ Virginie Despentes
For men, life is cool with us spending our time trying to understand them. Because great despair has a gender, too.
~ Virginie Despentes
La confiscación del cuerpo de las mujeres se produce al mismo tiempo que la confiscación del cuerpo de los hombres. Los únicos que salen ganando en este negocio son los dirigentes.
~ Virginie Despentes
The worry isn't that the women won't survive; quite the contrary. The worry is that they might come and say that [prostitution] isn't such a dreadful job after all. And not only because all work is degrading, difficult, and demanding, but because plenty of men are never as affectionate as when they are with a whore.
~ Virginie Despentes
When I was on unemployment I was not ashamed of being a social outcast. Just furious. It's the same thing for being a woman: I am not remotely ashamed of not being a hot sexy number but I am livid that—as a girl who doesn't attract men—I am constantly made to feel as if I shouldn't even be around.
~ Virginie Despentes
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
~ Vita Sackville-West
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts
~ Voltaire
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
~ Voltaire
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~ Voltaire
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
~ Voltaire
In interviewing salesmen, appeal to their imagination, appeal to their emotions, by telling the stories of other men in the organization who are a success in your work.
~ W. Clement Stone
All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men, and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction-never by those who were satisfied
~ W. Clement Stone
There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
~ W. H. Auden
We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a manmade problem can be solved by men and women.
~ Unknown
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
~ Unknown
The Punjab census for 2001 states that the ratio of women to men in the population is now 874 per thousand. In 1991 it was 882. The most widely given reason for this is the abortion of female foetuses. The practice, as in the UK, is unlikely to be confined to Sikhs but certainly includes them.
~ Unknown
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer."You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
~ W. Somerset Maugham
As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.
~ Unknown
Times are too dangerous for me to encourage men to risks I am not prepared to share or approve.
~ W.B. Yeats
Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry in Ireland has always been mysteriously connected with magic.
~ W.B. Yeats
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
~ W.E.B. DuBois
Il mare è in effetti quel barbarico stato di indistinzione e disordine da cui è emersa la civiltà e nel quale è sempre possibile che essa ricada, ove non venga salvata dagli sforzi degli dèi e degli uomini. (Gl'irati flutti)
~ W.H. Auden