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Men Quotes

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.

– Sophocles

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

– Warren Farrell

When AIDS first appeared, people didn’t know what it was. You’ll remember that it affected mostly young gay men – it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome – and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.

– Seth Berkley

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

– W. E. B. Du Bois

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world’s bulwark of liberty.

– Steve Buyer

I don’t have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that’s the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

– Sloan Wilson

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

– William Laud

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

– William Cobbett

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

– Yakov Smirnoff

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

– William Robertson Smith

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

– Thomas Jefferson

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

– Veronica Franco

Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

– Yotam Ottolenghi

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

– Sharon Horgan

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

– Steve Perry

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

– Voltaire

I don’t hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

– Tyson Fury

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

– Warren Farrell

Men don’t hear women.

– Wanda Sykes

Whenever women catfight, men think it’s going to turn to sex.

– Yasmine Bleeth

Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we’re being kicked to the ground; we’re not being supported. We’re not considered sexy or masculine, this or that. When you start hearing something enough, you start to believe it. But our world is changing, and I think we’re starting to see that that’s not the end-all be-all.

– Vincent Rodriguez III

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

– Will Carling

Real men read my books.

– Wilbur Smith

The Labor Department’s Hall of Honor recognizes men and women – like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike – who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.

– Thomas Perez

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– Sophocles

Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That’s my ideal fight.

– Tyson Fury

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

– Steven Pinker

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of ‘Mad Men.’ I was the oldest and bitterest.

– Stephanie Courtney

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something – losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

– Trey Gowdy

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

– Willie Stargell

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