Men Quotes

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

~ Julius Caesar

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

~ Simone Weil

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

~ Ray Comfort

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

~ Chanakya

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

~ Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

~ Aristotle

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

~ D. H. Lawrence

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

~ Luc De Clapiers

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

~ T. E. Lawrence

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

~ Chesty Puller

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

~ John Updike

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

~ Harriet Harman

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

~ Gloria Steinem

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

~ Adam Grant

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

~ Jim Webb

There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.

~ John Eldredge

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

~ R. J. Cutler

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

~ Davy Crockett

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

~ Adam Smith

I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

~ Edmund White

I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

~ Rob Lowe

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

~ Isaac Asimov

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

~ David Gest

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

~ Richard Reeves

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

~ Ayn Rand

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

~ Hypatia

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

~ Benito Mussolini

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

~ William Osler

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

~ Charles Dickens

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

~ Jeremy Taylor

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

~ James Otis

Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

~ Kenneth Scott Latourette

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

~ Noah Webster

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson