“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
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.
“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
“Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”