Pearl S. Buck Men Quotations

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ...

in a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection ...

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.