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Men Quotes by Patrick Ness
- And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
- Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
- War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and…
- To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
- Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
- War makes monsters out of men.
- Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
- Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you…
- ...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.
- The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
- War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too…
- A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
- Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
- I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on…
- And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most
- Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy…
- The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to…
- What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without…
- And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
- A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
- You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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