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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘men’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.” -Robert Kennedy
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“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” -John Locke
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“Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” -Walter Lippmann
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“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.” -William Butler Yeats
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“The most positive men are the most credulous.” -Alexander Pope
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“Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.” -John Ruskin
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“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.” -Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.” -Richard J. Needham
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“If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.” -David Hilbert
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“The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.” -Ezra Pound
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“The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.” -Julius Caesar
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“He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.” -Isaac Asimov
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“All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” -Joseph Conrad
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“They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts – the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.” -Richard Wagner
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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” -Ernest Gaines
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“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.” -Charlotte Bronte
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“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” -Isaiah Berlin
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“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.” -Yul Brynner
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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” -Thurgood Marshall
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“I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don’t know one who wouldn’t fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.” -George Jean Nathan
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“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.” -Francis Bacon
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“CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she’s strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.” -Jay Leno
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“Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.” -Sophocles
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“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” -Marcel Proust
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“I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the…
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“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.” -Honore de Balzac
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“As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.” -Pythagoras
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“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.” -Germaine Greer
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“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” -Charlotte Whitton
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“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” -Douglas Bader
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“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.” -Albert Claude
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“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.” -Mindy Kaling
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“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.” -George Berkeley
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“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.” -Fidel Castro
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“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.” -Nora Ephron
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“Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.” -Aeschylus
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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem
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“But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’” -Gertrude Stein
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“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?” -George Eliot
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“I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.” -Emo Philips
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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” -Anatole France
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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.” -Marquis de Sade
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“Either war is obsolete, or men are.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.” -Johnny Carson
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“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” -H. Allen Smith
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“Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?” -Jean Giraudoux
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“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” -Adam Smith
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“Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.” -Charles Dickens
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“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.” -John Steinbeck
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“The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.” -Andy Rooney
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“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.” -William Blake
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“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” -James Cash Penney
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“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” -Ulysses S. Grant
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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own.” -James Otis
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“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.” -Rebecca West
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“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!” -Maria Montessori
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“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.” -Camille Paglia
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“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.” -Cardinal Richelieu
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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” -Horace Mann
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“As Americans, we don’t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.” -Rick Perry
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“Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” -Thomas Szasz
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“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.” -Neil Armstrong
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“It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends.” -Stephen Fry
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“Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.” -Stephen Leacock
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“When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they’re actually tied up.” -David Duchovny
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“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.” -Samuel Richardson
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“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.” -Edvard Munch
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“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.” -Ansel Adams
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“We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.” -Annie Lennox
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“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.” -Elayne Boosler
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“The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.” -Guru Nanak
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“A good part – and definitely the most fun part – of being a feminist is about frightening men.” -Julie Burchill
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“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” -Malcolm De Chazal
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“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.” -Booker T. Washington
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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” -Sydney Smith
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“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.” -Edmund Burke
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“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” -James Madison
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.” -Jack Nicholson
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“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” -J. Paul Getty
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“I think that the day you’ve figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you’re no longer attracted to women. It’s the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.” -Kiefer Sutherland
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“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.” -John Quincy Adams
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“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” -David Allan Coe
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“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.” -Dorothy Day
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“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.” -Rita Rudner
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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -Roald Dahl
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“Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” -Daniel Burnham
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“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” -James Thurber
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“Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.” -Tim Allen
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“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.” -Havelock Ellis
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“I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men’s clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.” -Madeleine Albright
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“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” -Abraham Maslow
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“If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?” -Joan Baez
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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” -Epictetus
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“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.” -Lord Acton
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“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.” -Stephen Hawking
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“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.” -Karl Marx
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“Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage.” -Halle Berry
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“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.” -Frederick William Robertson
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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” -Thomas Hardy
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“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.” -Andrew Cohen
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“Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.” -Edmund Leach
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“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.” -H. G. Wells
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“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.” -Grover Cleveland
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“Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.” -Jesus Christ
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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” -Isabel Allende
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“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?” -Augustus Hare
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“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” -Brian Tracy
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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” -Herbert Hoover
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“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” -Black Elk
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“When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?” -Sitting Bull
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“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.” -Anaxagoras
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“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” -Andre Gide
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“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” -Ogden Nash
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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” -George MacDonald
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“All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That’s the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.” -Jeff Sessions
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“I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It’s easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.” -Paris Hilton
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“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.” -David Bailey
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“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.” -Charles Erwin Wilson
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“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.” -Diogenes
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“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.” -Christopher Dawson
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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” -Lord Byron
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“With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.” -William Lloyd Garrison
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“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.” -Margaret Mead
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“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.” -James Joyce
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“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.” -Norman Mailer
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“All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men – the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” -Andrew Jackson
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