Men Quotes

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

~ T. E. Lawrence

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.

~ Paul Ryan

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

~ Dolly Parton

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

~ John Muir

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

~ Debbie Ford

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

~ Elie Wiesel

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

~ Martin Luther King

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

~ Avicenna

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

~ John Keats

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

~ Billy Sunday

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

~ William Barclay

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

~ Francis Bacon

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

~ Arthur Wellesley

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

~ Calvin Coolidge

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

~ Richard Engel

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

~ Annie Besant

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

~ Frank Sinatra

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

~ Charles Eastman

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

~ Lucretius

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

~ John F. Kennedy

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

~ Malcolm X

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

~ George Washington

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

~ Samuel Gompers

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.

~ Thomas Merton

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

~ Thomas Paine

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

~ Susan B. Anthony

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

~ Jean Piaget

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

~ Maya Angelou

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

~ Susan B. Anthony

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.

~ William Golding

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

~ Bernie Sanders

You must make women count as much as men you must have an equal standard of morals and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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.

~ Sojourner Truth