“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”
What does it mean to be a man? These quotes explore masculinity, fatherhood, strength, vulnerability, and the evolving expectations placed on men by society, by women, and by themselves.
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”
“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”
“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
“Men do not fail they give up trying.”
“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”
“Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.”
“If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.”
“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.”
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”
“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?”