Quotes about men

A collection of quotes on the topic of love, women, men, man.

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„and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:“

— Thomas Hobbes, book Leviathan

The Second Part, Chapter 26, p. 140
Leviathan (1651)

Falseness

„I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.“

— Themistocles Athenian statesman -524 - -459 BC

As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152 http://books.google.com/books?id=QnDvIsNKNIwC

Money

„I have not said anything about politics today. I don't propose to say anything about politics. You have a right to elect whom you please; vote for the man you think best, and I think, when that is done, that you and I are freemen. Do as you consider right and honest in electing men for office. I did not come here to make you a long speech, although invited to do so by you. I am not much of a speaker, and my business prevented me from preparing myself. I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Use your best judgement in selecting men for office and vote as you think right.“

— Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate Army general 1821 - 1877

1870s, Speech before the Pole-Bearers Association (1875)

Country, Thinking, Business, Color

„The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.“

— Frantz Fanon, book The Wretched of the Earth

as translated by Richard Philcox (2004), p. 9
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

„Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.“

— Robert Burns Scottish poet and lyricist 1759 - 1796

God

„A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

„Women should not feel obliged towards any men for eternity. They earned this privilege by gathering berries, digging roots, picking wild rice, and chewing the skin to make it soft for 999 thousand years, while the men were having fun in the open chasing deer and fighting among themselves.“

— Vinko Vrbanić 1951

Women

Fight, Feeling, Women

„Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. “

— Robert Anthony professional wrestler 1982

Knowledge, Drink, People

„The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

„Fast, truly exciting cars are being killed off so that pretty soon the officers will all be gone, leaving us with a field full of enlisted men.“

— Jeremy Clarkson, book Born to be Riled

Source: Born to be Riled (1999), p. 34

Cars

„Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.“

— Christine de Pizan Italian French late medieval author 1365 - 1430

Understanding, Women

„Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.“

— Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Art, People

„It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, till the whole is out of nature.“

— Thomas Paine, book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

Nature

„A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body.“

— Thomas Paine, book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

„Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr., book Strength to Love

Strength to Love, Chapter 7
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
Context: The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.

„The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law. If charged with crime, he is incapable, generally, of determining for himself whether the indictment is good or bad. He is unfamiliar with the rules of evidence. Left without the aid of counsel he may be put on trial without a proper charge, and convicted upon incompetent evidence, or evidence irrelevant to the issue or otherwise inadmissible. He lacks both the skill and knowledge adequately to prepare his defense, even though he have a perfect one. He requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him. Without it, though he be not guilty, he faces the danger of conviction because he does not know how to establish his innocence. If that be true of men of intelligence, how much more true is it of the ignorant and illiterate, or those of feeble intellect.“

— George Sutherland Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives 1862 - 1942

Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 53 (1932)

Perfection, Science, Knowledge, Intelligence

„Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.“

— George Chapman, All Fools

Act V, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

Thinking, Fools

„How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still
In matters that belong to other men,
What beetles in our own!“

— George Chapman, All Fools

Act IV, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

„People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Cry, Strong, People

„He comes as the head of that group of enlightened men known as the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters. The existence of such a group was first made public in the writings of H. P. Blavatsky and later Alice A. Bailey, whose book, The Reappearance of the Christ describes the events which are now unfolding.“

— Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016

Maitreya's Mission Vol. I (1986)

Christ, Books

„Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.“

— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

Variant: Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

World, People

„Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.“

— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

Happy, Happiness, Pleasure

„Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming.“

— Markus Persson Swedish video game programmer 1979

[Hansen, Steven, Minecraft billionaire feels oppressed by women, https://www.destructoid.com/minecraft-billionaire-feels-oppressed-by-women-363094.phtml, 12 November 2017, Destructoid, 2016-05-23]

Silence

„There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment“

— Carl von Clausewitz German-Prussian soldier and military theorist 1780 - 1831

Thinking, Feeling

„Sir, than robbery, than piracy, than polygamy, slaveholding is worse. More criminal, more injurious to man, and consequently more offensive to God. Slaveholding has been justly designated as the sum of all villainy. Put every crime perpetuated among men into a moral crucible, and dissolve and combine them all, and the resultant amalgam is slaveholding. It has the violence of robbery.“

— Owen Lovejoy American politician 1811 - 1864

As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA192 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, pp. 192–193
1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)

God

„Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation… The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.“

— Saddam Hussein Iraqi politician and President 1937 - 2006

n.d., quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.

History

„The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.“

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

People

„You are the universe. expressing itself as a human for a little while.“

— Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

Universe

„Quiet people have the loudest minds.“

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

People

„Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.“

— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: Conscience is the most sacred thing among men. Every man has within him a still small voice, which tells him that nothing on earth can oblige him to believe that which he does not believe. The worst of all tyrannies is that which obliges eighteen-twentieths of a nation to embrace a religion contrary to their beliefs, under penalty of being denied their rights as citizens and of owning property, which, in effect, is the same thing as being without a country.