Quotes About Men

And what if Britain lost? There would be a financial crisis, unemployment, and destitution. Working-class men would take up Ethel's father's cry and say that they had never been allowed to vote for the war. The people's rage against their rulers would be boundless.

In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men.

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

After a while, two teenage boys served a meal of stew with bread. Abdul thought the boys had probably done the cooking themselves. He suspected that the chewy meat was camel, but he did not ask. Afterward the boys cleaned up in a perfunctory way, leaving scraps on the ground. Men without women were slobs everywhere, Abdul thought.

Pour l'heure, il n'était pas à côté d'elle mais un peu plus loin dans la foule, et bavardait avec Bessie la Cloche, la fille du propriétaire de l'auberge, une fille de petite taille avec des courbes là où il en fallait et un sourire que les hommes trouvaient aguichant et les femmes fabriqué.

At dusk the hunter took his prey, The lark his freedom never. All birds and men are sure to die But songs may live forever.

The war was won by men like us, ordinary men, uneducated but not stupid. Fall of Giants.

Men and women have different dreams.' She lifted her head, looked at him and touched his face. 'And when you put them together, you have a life.' she kissed his mouth

No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.