„Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.“
— Tiger Woods American professional golfer 1975
Quotes about men
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„Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration.“
— Izaak Walton English author and biographer 1593 - 1683
Part I, ch. 1.
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„I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.“
— Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -566 - -483 BC
G. K. Chesterton, in "On Holland" in Illustrated London News (29 April 1922)
„Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.“
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
„We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.“
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, "Marcus Garvey," in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
„What is this world? what asketh men to have?“
— Geoffrey Chaucer English poet 1343 - 1400
Context: What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.
The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921
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„Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.“
— David Ogilvy Advertising executive 1911 - 1999
„Every fetus becomes female unless it is steeped in male hormone, produced by a signal from the testes. Before birth, therefore, a male is already beyond the female. But to be beyond is to be exiled from the center of life. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
p. 19
„If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.“
— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
Context: If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 4.
„Listen to learned men, but do so only with one ear!... Let the other be always ready to receive the sweet accents of the voice of your heavenly Friend!“
— André-Marie Ampère French physicist and mathematician 1775 - 1836
Ampère's Meditation, September 1805
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„I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
„I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
Context: He had the highest regard for my attainments and gave me every evidence of his complete faith in my ability to ultimately achieve what I had set out to do. I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
About the role of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the failure of Tesla's "World System" project
„Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
Context: Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
"Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" (February 1892)
„Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think.“
— John Wesley Christian theologian 1703 - 1791
Context: Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.
Sermon 37 "The Nature of Enthusiasm"
