M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.”
“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”
Source: The New Meaning of Treason
“Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.”
Source: The Chinese Classics
“Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.”
Source: Some of the
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
“Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.”
“Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”
“Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“men must have changed their nature; because men were not born wolves, they have become wolves. God has not given them twenty-four-pounders nor bayonets, yet they made bayonets and cannons in order to destroy one another.”
Source: Candide
“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”
Source: Candide: or, Optimism
“Men must know their limitations.”
“Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.”
“Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.”
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Source: Notebooks, 1935-1942
“Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Men must not only know, they must act.”
“Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.”
“Men must sweat to attain virtue.”
“Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.”
“Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.”
“Men must work, and women must weep.”
“Men, naar Comoedier ere moralske og opbyggelige, kand jeg ikke see, med hvad Føye man kand kaste Foragt paa Acteurs, som forestille dem. Comoedianter ere vel udi de Roman-Catholske Lande excommunicerede: men, saasom paa mange saadanne Steder Skiøger offentligen tillades, lærer man intet andet deraf, end at den Canon er giort hen i Taaget, eller forfattet af Hypocriter, hvilke ere de eeneste lastværdige Comoedianter; Thi en Øyenskalk spiller de hæsligste Comoedier. Den Forskiel imellem ham og en anden Acteur er denne, at skiønt begge agere forstilte Personer, saa forstiller den første sig, for at bedrage Verden, og den sidste, for at legge Bedragerie og falske Dyder for Lyset.”
Source: Epistler
“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”
Source: The Law
“Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.”
“Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.”
“Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.”
“Men naturen har förlänat människan med den lyckliga förmågan att glömma. Annars skulle hon inte stå ut med livet”
Source: Den allvarsamma leken
“Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.”
“Men need a purpose?' She sighed, exasperated.
'Can’t you understand women are the same? We crave our own goals and our own accomplishments, our own sisterhood as well. And there are precious few places we can find it, in a world ruled by the opposite sex. Everywhere else we are governed by men’s rules, live at the mercy of male whims. But here, in this one tiny corner of the world, we are free to be our best and truest selves. Spindle Cove is ours, Bram. I will fight to my last breath before I let you destroy it. Women’s needs are important, too.”
Source: A Night to Surrender
“Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!”
“Men need female counterparts to balance and civilize them.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.”
Source: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections
“Men need no reason to make mischief”
“Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.”
Source: A Confession: And, What I Believe
“Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.”
“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism
“Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.”
“Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not be cold and emotionless. They need to know the full variety of emotions as well as thinking and acting. Not just the most limited ways of doing things.”
“Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.”
“Men need to have dreams that are worth women's life force otherwise they are robbing women of their full sensual expression.”
“Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.”
Source: My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST
“Men need to live and breathe women.”
“Men need to understand the sexual over-perception bias that afflicts their mating minds. They should know that, most of the time, the women smiling at them are merely being friendly or polite, not signaling sexual interest.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.”
“Men need women. Women need men.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“men needed two bodies to exist
one to exploit
and one to crown king”
Source: coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry
“Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution