Quotes about Men
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
— Epictetus
First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.
— Epictetus
The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.
— Erica Jong
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
— Andrew Jackson
We must end welfare programs that devalue men and spoil women.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If men do not return to God, evil will destroy us.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I had to be resilient playing non-League because I was 17 playing against men. I always knew how to beat someone and how to use my body. And that's one thing academy players don't really learn. Because in the academy you're playing against people your age. I was always playing against men.
— Michail Antonio
The idea of universal history presupposes the Christian idea of the unity of God, and the unity and common destiny of men, and was unknown to ancient Greece and Rome.
— Philip Schaff
These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.
— Joseph Campbell
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
— Abraham Lincoln
The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
— Pope Benedict XVI