Men Quotes

"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."

"When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

"Men want to make women happy."

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."

"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."

"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."

"Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune."

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

"Empowering women makes weak men."

"It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."

"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."

"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults."

"Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."

"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind."

"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."

"Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more."

"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

"During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."

"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."

"How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?"

"A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure."

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

"Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win."

"In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics."

"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."

"Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test."

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it."