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Men Quotes by Norman Mailer
- The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
- There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
- Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the…
- I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
- There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.
- The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
- Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine…
- We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us…
- The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
- The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to…
- Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
- Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
- Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
- It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
- Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can…
- You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of…
- I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to…
- A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. Andthe other equation is that the individual soldier in that…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle