Quotes about Men
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
— CS Lewis
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
— John Tillotson
God is good, Rae. Men have free will and often do evil. God has freewill and constantly chooses to do good. That's the difference between us. God is good. Men have a bent toward evil that won't change unless we appeal to God to take us in hand and make us good again. And since only a small fraction of men ever think it worth laying down their will to ask for God's goodness instead, we end up with days like this.
— Dee Henderson
Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
— Jennifer Aniston
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?
— Epictetus
First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.
— Epictetus
The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.
— Erica Jong
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
— Andrew Jackson
We must end welfare programs that devalue men and spoil women.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If men do not return to God, evil will destroy us.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The idea of universal history presupposes the Christian idea of the unity of God, and the unity and common destiny of men, and was unknown to ancient Greece and Rome.
— Philip Schaff
These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.
— Joseph Campbell