Quotes about men

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Source: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

Source: The Darkest Seduction

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths

Source: Matilda

Source: Quintana of Charyn

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Source: The Iliad

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: Enchantment

Source: A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Source: Busman's Honeymoon

Source: One for the Money

Variant: What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Source: Les Misérables

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Source: Solipsist

Source: How Should a Person Be?

Source: The Full Cupboard of Life

Source: The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Source: Playing with Fire

Source: The Discourses

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151

Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Sudden Death (1983)
Variant: "If the World Made Sense, Men Would Ride Sidesaddle" was the title of a 1993 one-man comedy by Ed Navis, performed at Wings Theatre, New York.
Variant: If the world were a logical place, then men would ride side-saddle.

Source: Adventures Among Books

Kissinger has denied saying it.
The only evidence that Kissinger ever said this was a claim in the book, The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in chapter 14 (p.194 in the 1995 paperback edition). Woodward & Bernstein claimed that one of Kissinger's political foes, Alexander Haig, had told someone unnamed, that he (Haig) had heard Kissinger say it. That's triple hearsay, made even weaker by the fact that one of the parties is anonymous. Kissinger has denied ever saying it, and it was never substantiated by Haig, nor by anyone of known identity who claimed to have heard it. As Kirkus Reviews noted about the whole book, "none of it is substantiated in any assessable way."
In fact, the quote is not even very plausible, on its face. Kissinger served with distinction in the U.S. Army during WWII, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He has always been very respectful of other servicemen and their sacrifices. For him to have said such a thing would have been wildly out of character. In fact, the awkward phrasing doesn't even sound like Kissinger, whose English prose is consistently measured and careful, despite his heavy accent, even when he speaks extemporaneously.
Misattributed

To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Source: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Context: The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.

Source: Fools Die

Source: Middlemarch

Source: Full of Life

Source: Job: A Comedy of Justice

Source: Fight Club

Source: Voyager

Source: Little Women

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Context: The difference between men is in their principle of association. Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by intrinsic likeness, or by the relation of cause and effect. The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance. Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.

Source: Brave New World

Anthem (1937)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 147.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship

Source: Burning Up

Source: Snowy Night with a Stranger

Source: Persuasion

Source: The Golden Compass

Source: The Sword of Shannara

Source: Nausea

p. 12.
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory, p. 13-14.
Context: Recent focus on the issue of racism has generated discourse but has had little impact on the behavior of white feminists towards black women. Often the white women who are busy publishing papers and books on "unlearning racism" remain patronizing and condescending when they relate to black women. This is not surprising given that frequently their discourse is aimed solely in the direction of a white audience and the focus solely on changing attitudes rather than addressing racism in a historical and political context. They make us the "objects" of their privileged discourse on race. As "objects," we remain unequals, inferiors. Even though they may be sincerely concerned about racism, their methodology suggests they are not yet free of the type of remain intact if they are to maintain their authoritative positions.
Context: Racist stereotypes of the strong, superhuman black woman are operative myths in the minds of many white women, allowing them to ignore the extent to which black women are likely to be victimized in this society and the role white women may play in the maintenance and perpetuation of that victimization.... By projecting onto black women a mythical power and strength, white women both promote a false image of themselves as powerless, passive victims and deflect attention away from their aggressiveness, their power, (however limited in a white supremacist, male-dominated state) their willingness to dominate and control others. These unacknowledged aspects of the social status of many white women prevent them from transcending racism and limit the scope of their understanding of women's overall social status in the United States. Privileged feminists have largely been unable to speak to, with, and for diverse groups of women because they either do not understand fully the inter-relatedness of sex, race, and focus on class and gender, they tend to dismiss race or they make a point of acknowledging that race is important and then proceed to offer an analysis in which race is not considered.

Source: The Pilgrims Progress

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Source: The Final Empire

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: Simply Irresistible

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.

Source: The Analects

Source: The Works Of Alexander Hamilton

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

Source: The Prince

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: A Total Waste of Makeup

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: B is for Burglar

Source: Wild Fire

The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers (2001)
Variant: There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

The Income Gap: The Rich Get Richer, Good for Them
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
2007-11-20
Threshold Editions
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2000s

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Source: Baby Zero

Source: Walden (1854), p.10

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Source: Fight Club

Source: The Hero of Ages

Source: Life Without Principle

Source: The Song of Achilles

Source: The Road

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)