“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
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.
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”
“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”
“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”
“Men often act knowingly against their interest.”
“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
“To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”