Men Quotes

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

~ Chief Seattle

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

~ Peter O'toole

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

~ Voltaire

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

~ Sophocles

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

~ Chief Joseph

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

~ Elayne Boosler

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

~ Pattie Boyd

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

~ Max Muller

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

~ Kenko Yoshida

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

~ J. William Fulbright

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

~ John Cheever

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

~ Warren Farrell

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

~ Washington Irving

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

~ Louis Althusser

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

~ Hanna Rosin

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

~ Andrew Young

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

~ Warren Farrell

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

~ Walter Lippmann

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

~ Charles De Secondat

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

~ Thucydides

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

~ Gloria Steinem

I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

~ Ellen Ullman

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

~ Herbert Spencer

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

~ Francis Parker Yockey

I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known.

~ Neil Gorsuch

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

~ William Dunbar

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

~ Guy Madison

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

~ Albert Camus

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

~ Bede Griffiths

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

~ Whittaker Chambers

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

~ Lajos Kossuth

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

~ Miuccia Prada

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

~ Mortimer Adler

Free men are the strongest men.

~ Wendell Willkie

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

~ Tracy Morgan

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

~ Simon Newcomb