Quotes About Men

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.