M Quotes
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“Men are vile inconstant toads.”
Source: 1708-1720
“Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.”
“Men are visual creatures, everyone knows this.”
Source: In Limbo
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.”
“Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.”
Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings
“Men are weak. Don't ask if they're good or bad. We're all sinful. Ask if they're better or worse than the times they lived in.”
Source: Missionaries
“Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.”
“Men are weak. Their most regrettable feature is their quick satiety with good. Throughout history, a continuous pattern has developed: whenever evil's day hand and the world is at peace, they become discontented and restless, eventually finding some way to stir the old evil back to life. Their hearts are easily corrupted and can be led to treachery on a mere whim. It is like unto a tree, which can never be completely felled. For all our efforts, it continues to sprout forth dark fruit which falls like seeds into the hearts of men. It seems that no matter how many times we may fell the tree or hew off its branches, it grows swiftly anew and again spawns much evil with its darksome yield.”
Source: Intriguing Inceptions: Essays in Fantasy & Science Fiction
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
“Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.”
Source: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.”
“Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.”
Source: The Three Half-Moons
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.”
“Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.”
Source: the new industrial state
“Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.”
“Men aren't always graceful you know? Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Sometimes, there's such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. Good men are often more practical than pretty.”
Source: Between Shades of Gray
“Men aren’t bad, women aren’t good. People are people and we all make, allow and enable mistakes.”
“Men aren't innately smarter than women; they're just willing to take action regardless of the outcome. If women did the same thing, imaging how much we can achieve.”
“Men aren’t saints, Leanne, the best of them will use you.”
Source: Sleeping With Earth
“Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.”
“Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.”
“Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.”
“Men aren't asked about age. Men aren't asked about their children. Not that these things aren't important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman's life becomes, 'Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.'”
“Men aren't asked about their children.”
“Men aren't called pricks, but women are called cunts.”
“Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.”
“Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.”
“Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.”
“Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.”
“Men aren't waiting to do anything besides finding a way to meet the right woman and making sure that bad dates are over in time to catch SportsCenter.”
“Men aren’t attracted to me by my mind. They’re attracted by what I don’t mind.”
“Men argue. Nature acts.”
Source: Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
“Men as a breed are not over-endowed with self-awareness.”
Source: The Descent of Man
“Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“Men as a rule do everything at women's expense, from their first day to the last. They come into the world at our expense, and at our expense they're able to do whatever work they please uninterrupted. We keep their homes pleasant fro them and provide them with all creature comforts, We satisfy both their loves and their lusts, and at our expense again they have the children they desire. When they's ill we nurse them; they recover at our expense; and when they die, we lay them out and see that they leave the world respectably.
If ever we can get anything out of them, or use them in any way that make things the least bit more even, it's not only our right to do it, it's a duty we owe to ourselves."
[...]"really Virginia, to hear you talk one would think you'd suffered a dreadful injury at the hands of some man or other- and yet you're always telling me that all your best friends were men until the war came".
"So they were," said Virginia. "but all my friends were absolute exceptions to the general run of men".”
Source: The Dark Tide
“Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.”
“Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.”
“Men as Victims: Challenging Cultural Myths
Judith Herman’s recent treatise on “complex PTSD" (Herman, 1992) is an extremely articulate and compelling analysis of some of the failings of the current PTSD diagnosis, and of some of the psychological legacies of prolonged, repeated trauma. However, there was one aspect of the article which concerned me and which I wish to address.
Throughout the article, "Complex PTSD: A Syndrome in Survivors of Prolonged and Repeated Trauma," whenever reference is made by pronoun to perpetrators or "captors," the pronoun "he" or "him' is used. There are four such references. Whenever reference is made by pronoun to victims or survivors, the pronoun "her" or "she" is used. There are 11 such references. This is not simply an issue of the use of sexist language, which it is. By uniformly linking perpetration with males and victimhood with females, a misconception is perpetuated, one that is shared by the public and by mental health professionals. While there is evidence that most perpetrators of sexual abuse are male, and that there are more female victims of sexual abuse than male victims, it is not true that all perpetrators are male and all victims are female. In fact, in the article, some of the traumas from which Dr. Herman was deriving her argument—political torture, concentration camp survivors, for example—affect as many males as females. Even in the case of sexual abuse, there is increasing evidence that the sexual abuse of males is far more prevalent than has heretofore been believed. Research on male sexual victimization lags more than a decade behind that of female victimization, but several recent studies have reported prevalence rates near or above 20% (Finkelhor et at, 1990; Urquiza, 1988, cited in Urquiza and Keating, 1990; Lisak and Luster, 1992).”
“Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.”
“Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.”
“Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.”
Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to
“Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.”
“Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.”
“Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.”
“Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.”