Top 43 Monsters Of Men Quotes
#3. 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 much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
Patrick Ness
#4. War makes monsters of men," I say, quoting Ben from that night in the weird place where New World buried its dead.
"And women," Mistress Coyle says.
Patrick Ness
#5. A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Patrick Ness
#6. The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this
Seth Tucker
#7. What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
Brandon Sanderson
#8. A fortress against ideas and against the
Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Louis MacNeice
#9. That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.
H.G.Wells
#10. I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'
Jimmy Fallon
#11. My heart is broken, broken in a way that will never be healed, broken in a way that feels like it's going to kill me, too, right here on this stupid, freezing beach
Patrick Ness
#12. Beyond the Wall the monsters live, the giants and the ghouls, the stalking shadows and the dead that walk, but they cannot pass so long as the Wall stands strong and the men of the Night's Watch are true. So go to sleep Brandon, my baby boy, and dream sweet dreams. There are no monsters here.
George R R Martin
#13. I've been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again.
Gladys Lawson
#14. A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
Anthony Marra
#15. All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.
Lon Chaney Jr.
#16. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Leonard Cohen
#18. Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?"
"You closed the school and burnt all the books."
"Ah, so I did.
Patrick Ness
#19. There was one less monster on earth, and the world was certainly better off without him.
Craig R. Key
#20. Some people came into the world and never once looked up to see the lives around them
they were so focused on what they wanted, what they needed. No one else mattered to them. They disconnected from sympathy and pity and guilt. Some people came into the world as monsters. I understood that now.
Alexandra Bracken
#21. We were king's men, knights, and heroes ... but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all."
"Are you saying you are monsters?"
"I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne
George R R Martin
#22. The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#23. Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#24. And, let me compliment your fashionable attire, my friend. Is naked the new black?" said Rodrigo. Apparently, the two men could see each other. That figures; all monsters can see in dark. "I am uncertain of what happened to the old black while I have been indisposed," Niccolo replied flatly.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#25. See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster.
Richard Kadrey
#26. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?
Rebecca McNutt
#27. Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.
Adhish Mazumder
#28. Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it.
Bram Stoker
#30. One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Aldous Huxley
#31. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Today, he saw the true cost of two men's immovable wills. He saw what happened when men were forced to fight each other for months on end. It was not merely sickness of the body that plagued sieges, but sickness of the soul that turned men into monsters.
Kiersten White
#34. That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.
Holly Black
#37. I'll find you
Keep calling for me, Viola
Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
#38. What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
Montesquieu
#39. Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
#40. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
Niccolo Ammaniti
#41. What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? What kind of men should we have as the result of the exchange?
Eliza Lynn Linton
#42. What brings you to our gorgeous, God-given paradise, our Eden of monsters and half-men?
Nathan Yocum
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