Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Psalms 144:4
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Ecclesiastes 6:3&10-12
God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ecclesiastes 7:29
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and be merry. Ecclesiastes 8:15
Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. Jeremiah 17:5
Man shall not live by bread alone. Matthew 3:17
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: Mark 7:15&21&22
God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are. Luke 18:11
Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! John 19:5
I am made all things to all men. I Corinthians 9:22
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant ... Brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure. 2 Timothy 3:2-4
Do not yield to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ. It does not become you. Shake off this base faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of enemies! Bhagavad Gita 2.3
I’m a man like any man. Carry on Matron 1972 starring Sid James & Kenneth Williams & Charles Hawtrey & Hattie Jacques & Joan Sims & Bernard Breslaw & Terry Scott & Kenneth Connor & Wendy Richard et al, director Gerald Thomas, Williams to Jacques
I need to prove myself as a man ... There is a mutual attraction between us. You must have felt it. ibid.
Men do these things. Anna Karenina 1985 starring Jaqueline Bisset & Christopher Reeve & Paul Scofield & Ian Ogilvy & Anna Massey & Joanna David & Judi Bowker & Valerie Lush & Judy Campbell et al, director Simon Langton, Anna to sister in law
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, 1955
The style is the man. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, discourse French Academie, 1753
Do you know what kind of a man he is? The Reckless Moment 1949 starring James Mason & Joan Bennett & Geraldine Brooks & Henry O’Neill & Shepperd Strudwick & David Bair & Roy Roberts & Kathryn Card & William Schallert et al, director Max Opuls, mother to daughter
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. Henry Adams
Men have never been good; they are not good and they never will be good. Karl Barth, Christian Community, 1948
We’re not those kind of men. Peaky Blinders s3e3, Arthur to Tommy, BBC 2016
The angry white guy – his days are numbered … We used to be useful for something, right? Michael Moore in Trumpland ***** 2016
Whatever you’re afraid of does not wear a dress, or a pants-suit. ibid.
Masculinity and Other Hate Crimes. Sacha Baron Cohen: Who is America? s1e6, Nira, Channel 4 2018
It never ceases to astonish me how talented men are at making a mess. House of Cards US s5e10: Chapter 62, Jane Davis, Netflix 2017
I’m travelling to the extreme edge of modern British masculinity. Fifty years after women began a march for equal rights, the battle of the sexes is being fought on a new front, but this is not by women, it’s by young men. I want to know why so many young guys feel overlooked, overly judged, and under attack. And as growing numbers take to the internet and social media becomes a weapon of hate, I want to find out why a new generation of men feel the real victims of sex discrimination are guys. Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK: Men at War, BBC 2019
Many of the men I met at the seminar claimed they had to hide their views and their faces for fear of repercussions at work. ibid.
There seems to be a weird sense of paranoia in this world. ibid.
I’m just not sure why. ibid.
Being a British guy in 2015 is not easy. 21st century pressures are changing the way we live. The way we love. Even the way we look. In this series I’m travelling to the extreme edge of modern British masculinity. The UK’s gyms are bulging and British men have never been bigger, buffer or more bothered about body image. So why are so many young British guys battling with their bodies? Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK: Dying for a Six Pack, BBC 2019
Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. Crap. Becoming a man is realising it’s all rotten. (Gangs & Spy & Man) The Night Manager III, novel John Le Carre, starring Tom Hiddleston & Hugh Laurie & Olivia Colman & Tom Hollander & Elizabeth Debicki & Alistair Petrie & Natasha Little & Douglas Hodge & David Harewood & Tobias Menzies & Antonio de la Toree et al, director Susanne Bier, Roper to Jonathan, BBC 2016
The conservatives are all macho bluster, all pro gun and pro death. And pro torture. You know, real men that go off in the woods and blast each other in the face from time to time. Bill Maher: The Decider, Sky Comedy 2007
A man oughta be able to take care of his woman. Seven Men from Now 1956 starring Randolph Scott & Lee Marvin & Gail Russell & Walter Reed & John Larch & Don Red Barry & Fred Graham & John Beradino & John Philips & Stuart Whitman et al, director Budd Boetticher, Ben Stride to traveler wife
‘We’re breeding a nation of men who are not what they used to be.’ Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel and Stone e2: Back Street Mechanic, BBC 2006