Men Quotes - Page 382

There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

People tell me, 'Bill, let it go. The Kennedy assassination was years ago. It was just the assassination of a President and the hijacking of our government by a totalitarian regime - who cares? Just let it go.' I say, 'All right then. That whole Jesus thing? Let it go! It was 2,000 years ago! Who cares?'

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.