“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
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.
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
“The most positive men are the most credulous.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
“I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?”
“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.”
“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.”
“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”
“I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”