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Quotes About Men

They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious , I conclude he is a rascal , though I know some instances of very good men being religious .
~ David Hume
The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.
~ David Joy
The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write. Cultural diffusion seems a less likely explanation for its occurrence in so many areas, many of them distant and isolated.
~ David Kahn
Consider, for example, the title of a prominent book on the subject: The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives.22 Leftists cleverly have it both ways with this line of reasoning: men and women aren't that different biologically, but men are evil anyway.
~ David Limbaugh
But if such things were common, then would we not know about them?" "They happen to women," Miss Feldstein says wearily. "And as we have just witnessed, when a woman makes a claim about her own body, men may find it convenient to disbelieve her.
~ David Liss
Now I no longer believed that one man or even one group of men were responsible. There were too many connections, too many avenues of villainy. Too many men had too much power and knowledge, but none could be made to answer for their crimes because they hid themselves in endless mazes of deceit and fiction.
~ David Liss
I would never find a bank launched for worse reasons by more inept men.
~ David Liss
There were no insurrectionists to fight, so some twenty men were rounded up and two sentenced to die, though they were both, in the end, pardoned.
~ David Liss
Jacob Wainwright was asked to carve an inscription on the large Mvula tree which stands by the place where the body rested, stating the name of Dr. Livingstone and the date of his death, and, before leaving, the men gave strict injunctions to Chitambo to keep the grass cleared away, so as to save it from the bush-fires which annually sweep over the country and destroy so many trees.
~ David Livingstone
Feminist scholars rightly stress the importance of power in sexual conflict. It must be recognized, however, that men's motivations for power, status, and resources exist in part because women have preferred to mate with men who possess power, status, and resources. Neglecting this part of the causal origins of sexual conflict will impede efforts to alter it.
~ David M. Buss
A second way in which desirability discrepancies create mating conflict centers not on men's misperceptions but rather on the hard, cruel fact mentioned earlier—men view many women as "above threshold" in attractiveness, but women tend to be attracted primarily to men in the top twentieth percentile.
~ David M. Buss
One way to curtail men's proprietary mindset is to empower women -a trend that started with first-wave feminists who ushered in women's right to vote and continues today with women's increasing access to their own resources-.
~ David M. Buss
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
~ G.K. Chesterton
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
~ Richard Baxter
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.
~ Matt Chandler
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.
~ Thomas Browne
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.
~ Walter Lippmann
In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.
~ William Romaine
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
~ William Shakespeare
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
~ William Shakespeare
It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.
~ Stefan Zweig