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Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

– Eric LustbaderRate it:

Men make their own history

– Karl MarxRate it:

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

– Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TennysonRate it:

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

– Herman Melville, Moby DickRate it:

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

– William AdamsRate it:

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

– MenciusRate it:

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

– Alexander PopeRate it:

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right

– Josiah C. WedgewoodRate it:

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Men need usually full training while Women require often only a fine tuning for a scintillating acting in a real movie called life.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

– Blaise PascalRate it:

Men normally don’t weep easily but when the heart of a man cries, it even dries the tears in his eyes; definitely not sure in case of women as a woman can shed tears readily for anything often.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

– Laurence J. PeterRate it:

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

– Winston ChurchillRate it:

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

– Sir Winston ChurchillRate it:

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

– Author UnknownRate it:

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

– Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRate it:

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

– LongfellowRate it:

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

– William HazlittRate it:

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– SophoclesRate it:

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– Sophocles, AjaxRate it:

Men of immeasurable greatness are tossed about in the ebb and flow of words.

– Yunmen WenyanRate it:

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

– Leonardo da VinciRate it:

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

– SophoclesRate it:

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