„Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.“
— Helen Fisher Canadian anthropologist 1947
Fonte: Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
„What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.“
Lucretia, Part II, Chapter XII
Contexto: The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
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„Some men work to maintain others who labour not. That is unjust.“
— Leon MacLaren British philosopher 1910 - 1994
Leon MacLaren, Justice.
„What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.“
— Clive Staples Lewis, livro The Abolition of Man
The Abolition of Man (1943)
„It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."“
— Hugo Black U.S. Supreme Court justice 1886 - 1971
James Madison Lecture at the New York University School of Law (February 17, 1960).
„Time is a jewel more worth than a world. Time is not yours to dispose of as you please; it is a glorious talent that men must be accountable for as well as any other talent.“
— Thomas Brooks English Puritan 1608 - 1680
The Hypocrite Detected, Anatomized
„All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin“
— John Buchan, livro The Power-House
Fonte: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Contexto: "It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon. All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin."
„Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.“
— Saul Bellow, livro Dangling Man
Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84
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„It's disconcerting to realize that businessmen, generals, soldiers, men of action are less corrupted by power than intellectuals… You take a conventional man of action, and he's satisfied if you obey. But not the intellectual. He doesn't want you just to obey. He wants you to get down on your knees and praise the one who makes you love what you hate and hate what you love. In other words, whenever the intellectuals are in power, there's soul-raping going on.“
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983
Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1HqWUMxbs#t=2m23s with Eric Sevareid (1967)
„Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world. They may move men to speak to each other because some of those words somewhere express not just what the writer is thinking but what a huge segment of the world is thinking.“
— William Golding British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1911 - 1993
Nobel prize lecture (1983)
Contexto: Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world. They may move men to speak to each other because some of those words somewhere express not just what the writer is thinking but what a huge segment of the world is thinking. They may allow man to speak to man, the man in the street to speak to his fellow until a ripple becomes a tide running through every nation — of commonsense, of simple healthy caution, a tide that rulers and negotiators cannot ignore so that nation does truly speak unto nation. Then there is hope that we may learn to be temperate, provident, taking no more from nature's treasury than is our due. It may be by books, stories, poetry, lectures we who have the ear of mankind can move man a little nearer the perilous safety of a warless and provident world. It cannot be done by the mechanical constructs of overt propaganda. I cannot do it myself, cannot now create stories which would help to make man aware of what he is doing; but there are others who can, many others. There always have been. We need more humanity, more care, more love. There are those who expect a political system to produce that; and others who expect the love to produce the system. My own faith is that the truth of the future lies between the two and we shall behave humanly and a bit humanely, stumbling along, haphazardly generous and gallant, foolishly and meanly wise until the rape of our planet is seen to be the preposterous folly that it is.
For we are a marvel of creation. I think in particular of one of the most extraordinary women, dead now these five hundred years, Juliana of Norwich. She was caught up in the spirit and shown a thing that might lie in the palm of her hand and in the bigness of a nut. She was told it was the world. She was told of the strange and wonderful and awful things that would happen there. At the last, a voice told her that all things should be well and all manner of things should be well and all things should be very well.
Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.
„We need 720,000 men continuously employed in this industry. This is where you boys come in. Our fighting men will not be able to achieve their purpose unless we get an adequate supply of coal.“
— Ernest Bevin British labour leader, politician, and statesman 1881 - 1951
Hansard HC 6ser vol 449 col 841 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060725/debtext/60725-1076.htm
Speech to recruiting meeting, December 1943. Bevin had introduced a system whereby some men conscripted for National Service would be transferred to working in coal-mining; because of this speech, they were known as 'Bevin boys'.
„Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is.“
— John Updike American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic 1932 - 2009
Act I
Buchanan Dying (1974)
Contexto: Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
„What women want is what men want. They want respect.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
As quoted in Evergreen : A Guide to Writing with Readings (2003), by Susan Fawcett
„Masculinity is about being a man within a group of men. Above all things, masculinity is about what men want from each other.“
— Jack Donovan American activist, editor and writer 1974
The Way of Men is The Way of The Gang
The Way of Men (2012)
„The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
„Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.“
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
No. 416
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
„Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
„He revealed what God must be like and what man may be like, and he pledged himself to stand by his little brothers until they too achieved God’s age-long purpose on this minor planet; until all the sons of men realized their possibilities and became the sons of God.“
— Leslie Weatherhead English theologian 1893 - 1976
Fonte: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.245
„Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".“
— Sherry Argov American writer 1977
Fonte: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
„Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.“
— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
Fonte: What is Art? (1897), Ch. 8
„What men ought to want is liberty.“
— Anthony Trollope, livro The Duke's Children
Fonte: The Duke's Children (1879), Ch. 48
Contexto: "I think it is so glorious," said the American. "There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."
