M Quotes
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“Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.”
Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“Men are not good for much beyond heavy hauling and getting in the way, most of the time-and kissing and such...”
Source: The Dragon Reborn
“Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.”
“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.”
“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”
“Men are not human. About a couple of years, the evolution will be released from these pathetic figures.”
“Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .”
“Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed.”
“Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.”
Source: Never Satisfied: How/why Men Cheat
“Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.”
“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”
“Men are not merely annihilating themselves at a great rate these days, but they are telling one another enormous lies, grandiose fibs...they are more destructive than dive bombers and mine fields, for they challenge not merely one's immediate position but one's main defenses.”
Source: On Democracy
“Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.”
Source: Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics
“Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently”
Source: The Season
“Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it”
“Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.”
“Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.”
Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
“Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are not potatoes!”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
“Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“men are not realists - only women are.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.”
“Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.”
“Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.”
“Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.”
Source: Escape the Coming Night
“Men are Not slaves. I have had countless discussions with women on this matter, often met with resistance. But truth remains truth, no matter how many lies try to overshadow it”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...
“Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people.”
Source: All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
“Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.”
“Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.”
Source: The Gods are Thirsty
“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”
“Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.”
Source: Of Liberty and Necessity; a treatise, wherein all controversy concerning predestination, election, free will, grace, merits, reprobation, etc. is fully decided and cleared. New edition
“Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.”
“Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them”
“Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.”
“Men are nothing until they are excited.”
“Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.”
Source: Memories and Studies
“Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative.”
“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.”
“Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.”
“Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.”