Worthless Men Quotes

#1. If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

John Adams

#2. It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Max Weber

#3. In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Sigmund Freud

#4. I became convinced that almost all the priests of that religion, the writers, were immoral, and for the most part men of bad, worthless character, much inferior to those whom I had met in my former dissipated and military life;

Leo Tolstoy

#5. No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. It is truly regrettable that a person will treat a man who is valuable to him well, and a man who is worthless to him poorly.

Hojo Shigetoki

#8. No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

Brian Oldfield

#9. Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Pythagoras

#10. A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Frederick The Great

#11. Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

Emily Bronte

#12. Our society tells men they are worthless perverts who reek of male privilege while simultaneously castrating them should they act in a manly manner, and now women are upset because men are becoming more feminized? You reap what you sow.

Helen Smith

#13. The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.

Peter Travers

#14. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them

Joe Abercrombie

#15. Why do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.

Seneca.

#16. The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Plato

#17. In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men. Little

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

Paul Morabito

#19. To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

Honore De Balzac

#20. That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Plato

#21. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#22. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane

#23. Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

Rene Descartes

#24. You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Athol Fugard

#25. It perhaps might be said
if any one dared
that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

Stephen Crane

#26. There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

Cassandra Clare

#27. Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Franz Liszt

#28. Let a man do right, not trouble himself about worthless opinion; the less he heeds tongues, the less difficult will he find it to love men.

George MacDonald

#29. A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Euripides

#30. That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

Plautus

#31. The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

Frank Yerby

#32. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh

Charles Dickens

#33. That Damon Matthews," Linda spat. "You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ' damn' as in 'damn, that kid's a worthless sonovabitch'.

Kristen Ashley

#34. O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Euripides

#35. He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Aristotle.

#36. Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death
what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

Sophocles

#37. The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

Hesiod

#38. I shouldn't wish to be a tease. To ... lead you on."
He smiled. "That's my look-out, not yours."
She considered that, doubtfully. "There are some men who would disagree."
His smile vanished. "Then they are worthless curs, not men.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#39. I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

Walker Evans