Be A Man Quotes - Page 14

• You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

  Eddie Levert

  Running, Men, Keep Running

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way.

  Amanda Ripley

  Men, Water, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Wise, Men, Brave

  James Gould Cozzens (1948). “Guard of Honor”

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• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.

  Nate Parker

  Crazy, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Men might be chastised for being promiscuous, but I think they're more likely to be given a pass, due to a "men will be men" attitude that still prevails in the Western world. They don't usually experience anything like the virulent shaming and verbal abuse that women who are sexually adventurous are sometimes prone to experiencing.

  Christine Sneed

  Attitude, Thinking, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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  I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Trying, Pedestal

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• The code that most prisoners live by is an extension of the masculine roles they were taught growing up, how they were conditioned about what it means to be a man: you've got to be strong, you've got to be tough, you've got to be in charge.

  James Fox

  Strong, Growing Up, Mean

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• I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

  Mark Millar

  Girl, Men, Role Models

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, Men, Trying

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Why not be a man and fight like a man.

  Tito Ortiz

  Fighting, Men, Why Not

  Source: punchdrunkgamer.com

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• Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Father, Men

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• My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

  Walter Mosley

  Art, Father, Responsibility

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press

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• You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Boys, Massage

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• Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Women, Son

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• O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

  Homer

  Children, Home, Eye

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

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• Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Men, Two

  Sue Grafton (2009). “S is for Silence”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Reason, Intellect

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Wrath, Giving

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

  Todd Haynes

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Todd Haynes (2007). “Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Three Screenplays”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Nonconformist

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Practice, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.75, Penguin

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• Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

  Sarah Schulman

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Men, Differences

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• To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Progress, Trying

  "Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.

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