981 private quotes tagged men

“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.” — Carlos Castaneda

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“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.” — William James

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“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.” — Ho Chi Minh

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“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” — Virginia Woolf

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“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.” — Albert Ellis

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“'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.” — James Allen

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“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” — Richard Wright

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“If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.” — Doris Day

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“Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!” — Jay Leno

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“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” — Robert E. Howard

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“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?” — Jim Bouton

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“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.” — Margaret Mead

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“Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.” — Samuel Gompers

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“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” — Noah Webster

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“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.” — Albert Pike

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“Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.” — Mae West

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“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.” — Spike Lee

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“I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.” — Herodotus

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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” — Augustus Y. Napier

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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” — Francois Fenelon

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