Men Quotes
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.
No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?
What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!
Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.
What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
