Men Quotes

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Henry Miller

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Henry Miller

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Henry Miller

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Herman Melville

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Herman Melville

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

Herman Melville

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H. L. Mencken

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

H. L. Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Ho Chi Minh

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Ho Chi Minh

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Horace Mann

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Holly Near

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a lead...

Hakeem Olajuwon

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

Helen Rowland

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Helen Rowland

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

Henry Rollins

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Henry Rollins