Young Men

Famous quotes containing the words young men, young and/or men:

    The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotents.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “... I have what no young man can have
    Because he loves too much.
    Words I have that can pierce the heart,
    But what can he do but touch?”
    Day-break and a candle end.

    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We’re no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.
    Jane Rule (b. 1931)