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Quotes About Men

the disrespect that abusive men so often direct toward women in general tends to be born of their cultural values and conditioning rather than personal experiences of being victimized by women.
~ Unknown
Abuse of women by men is so rampant that, unless people can somehow make it women's own fault, they are forced to take on a number of uncomfortable questions about men and about much of male thinking.
~ Unknown
Abusive and controlling men tend to have an endless collection of strategies to avoid having to look at their behavior and change it. They are highly attached to an unequal, privileged position in their relationships with women, and as a result are simply not willing to operate respectfully, since that would mean operating as equals.
~ Unknown
The first time you buy a house you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.
~ Lupe Velez
Great men and heroes are especial gifts of God, men who He gives and upholds, who carry on their work and calling, and do great deeds.
~ Unknown
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
~ Unknown
Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.
~ Lydia Millet
He who looks for the worst in men will not be without belief in a personal devil; he who looks for the best in men will not be without faith in a personal God.
~ Lyman Abbott
We think if we can only take the temptation away from men, men will be virtuous. We are mistaken. Men are made virtuous by confronting temptation.
~ Lyman Abbott
The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God.
~ Lynn Austin
History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent.
~ Lynn Cullen
No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.
~ Lynn Viehl
it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his
~ Unknown
We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called the Republic of Letters. That was what we believed in twenty years ago. But now, seems like all that has gone. It's church and Sunday best, and votes for men." "What
~ Unknown
But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known
~ Unknown
Never rely on a husband for your happiness. The government persecute men, then men persecute their wives in return. And what do the wives do? If they have a child, they slap it to let off steam. If not, they drown themselves or swallow bottles of pesticide.
~ Ma Jian
otros milagros de la abundante "fe" de los hombres de ciencia, ¡tan exigentes con los milagros populares!
~ Unknown
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
~ Madeleine Albright
The president's admiration for autocrats is so ingrained that it extends to men even less worthy of respect than these.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Fascism draws energy from men and women who are upset because of a lost war, a lost job, a memory of humiliation, or a sense that their country is in steep decline.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
With her honey hair and perfect posture, she had that porcelain-doll fragility that most men wanted...as if she might shatter if someone so much as touched her. In his youth, he'd been certain he wanted that sort of woman: the kind he could protect, the kind that made him feel like a man. But years on the battlefield had taught him to appreciate a woman who could stand at his side and hold her own with enemy, who has some flesh on her bones and some fire in her eyes.
~ Madeline Hunter
Our men liked conquest; they did not trust a man who was conquered himself.
~ Madeline Miller
Death's Brother is the name that poets give to sleep. For most men those dark hours are a reminder of the stillness that waits at the end of days.
~ Madeline Miller
Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?
~ Madeline Miller