Men Quotes

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.

Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

A man with God is always in the majority.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.