quotations about men
Man is still a predatory animal, and we're only kidding ourselves if we think we're the pinnacle of evolution and civilization.
JELLO BIAFRA
interview, Spin Magazine, February 1986
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
MAX STIRNER
The Ego and Its Own
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPER
Hope
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit Redux
It must be a very weary day to the youth when he first discovers that, after all, he will only become a man.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
At Last
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Atlantic, 1965
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
attributed, Family Circle Magazine, August 9, 2005