Be A Man Quotes - Page 6

• It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on victims to have to prevent their own assault is crap and has to be treated as crap.

  Laura Kipnis

  Men, Focus, Prevention

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Way, World

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• A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Mind, May

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.411, Canongate Books

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• A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Children, Animal, Men

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• To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

  Ric Flair

  Men, He Man, Beats

  Ric Flair (2010). “Ric Flair: To Be the Man”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

  LeCrae

  Men, Grew Up, Stills

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• Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Integrity, Men

  "Wealth". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860.

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• A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

  Denton Cooley

  Successful, Men, Names

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• But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!

  Denis Diderot

  Religious, Men, Blood

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• My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.

  Kenna

  Dad, Writing, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

  Ali Meshkini

  Liars, Men, Serenity

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• The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Healing, Men, He Man

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

  Gerhard Berger

  Men, Thinking, Car

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• ... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.

  Hannah Arendt

  Truth, Moving, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Loss, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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• [On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Legends, Should Have Known

  Look Magazine, 27 Nov. 1967

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• For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.

  Carol Gilligan

  Mother, Children, Couple

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• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Mean, Men, Political

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• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Being Different

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Ambition, Men

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• Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Military, Men

  Letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, as quoted in "Eisenhower the President" (1981) by William Bragg Ewald, Jr., p. 248, August 20, 1956.

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• Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Saint

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 136

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• I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, School, Men

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June, 2001.

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• The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Blow, Men, Order

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