Top 1000 Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Great hopes make great men.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale.

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.