Quotes About Men

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.