M Quotes
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“Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.”
Source: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
“Men are much more agressive with their advances.”
“Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.”
“Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.”
“Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.”
Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition
“Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.”
“Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.”
“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Men are my life, diamonds are my career.”
“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”
Source: Book of Shadows: Book One
“Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.”
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”
“Men are never attached to you by favours.”
“Men are never brave, are they?”
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
Source: The fall, & Exile and the kingdom
“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God”
Source: What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics
“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Men are never selfish. They’re smart. Women are always selfish. You want to be single? Selfish. You’re a wife and mother and do anything other than dote on your husband and children? Selfish. I want you and your sisters to learn to take that word as a compliment. Anyone who says that to you is trying to discourage you from doing what you want. That’s how you know you’re doing something right.”
Source: Play Nice
“Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.”
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”
“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.”
Source: (420 p.)
“Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.”
“Men are no longer what they used to be. Decaffeinated coffee. Vapes. Tandem skydiving. People want to indulge, seek pleasure, but don’t want to take the risks associated with the indulgence. Too much prosperity, stability, and rapid advancement in technology have rendered everyone spineless.”
Source: Heaven's Gate
“Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.”
“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."”
Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990
“Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.”
“Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.”
“Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?”
“Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.”
“Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.”
Source: Down a Lost Road
“Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life, therefore, that [they]... make, the more often [they] will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.”
“Men are not born equal in either physical or mental capacity. But a socialist believes that society as a whole will benefit, and there will be more happiness for more people, if all are given equal opportunities for education and advancement regardless of class or property.”
Source: The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.”
Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.”
“Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.
The result is the encroachment of one group upon the territory of another, the rivalry of groups for the resources of the soil, and then war.
Trade and finance develop, and bring new class-divisions. "Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, each at war with the other; and in either division there are smaller ones - you would make a great mistake if you treated them as single states".
A mercantile bourgeoisie arises, whose members seek social position through wealth and conspicuous consumption: "they will spend large sums of money on their wives".
These changes in the distribution of wealth produce political changes: as the wealth of the merchant over-reaches that of the land-owner, aristocracy gives way to a plutocratic oligarchy - wealthy traders and bankers rule the state. Then statesmanship, which is the coordination of social forces and the adjustment of policy to growth, is replaced by politics, which is the strategy of parts and the lust of the spoils of office.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined; oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious scramble for immediate wealth.
In rather case the end is revolution.
When revolution comes it may seem to arise from little causes and petty whims, but though it may spring from slight occasions it is the precipitate result of grave and accumulated wrongs; when a body is weakened by neglected ills, the merest exposure may bring serious disease.
Then democracy comes: the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest; and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power.
But even democracy ruins itself by excess – of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.
This is at first glance a delightful arrangement; it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses.
As to the people they have no understanding, and only repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them; to get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only necessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play (a hit, no doubt, at Aristophanes, whose comedies attacked almost every new idea). Mob-rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride; every wind of oratory stirs up the waters and deflects the course.
The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy; the crowd so loves flattery, it is so “hungry for honey” that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the “protected of the people” rises to supreme power. (Consider the history of Rome).
The more Plato thinks of it, the more astounded he is at the folly of leaving to mob caprice and gullibility the selection of political officials – not to speak of leaving it to those shady and wealth-serving strategists who pull the oligarchic wires behind the democratic stage.
Plato complains that whereas in simpler matters – like shoe-making – we think only a specially-trained person will server our purpose, in politics we presume that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”
Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II
“Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.”
“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”
Source: The Game
“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. Abraham Lincoln”
Source: Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.”
“Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.”
Source: Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence
“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless and infallible, we suddenly realize that we have obtained bloodless, sentimental and false personalities incapable of both good and evil. Separating them from mother Earth, we separate them from life, and where is no life, there is no virtue either.”