981 private quotes tagged men

“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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“I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.” — Douglas MacArthur

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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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“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” — Douglas Bader

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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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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.” — Jimmy Carter

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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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“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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“Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?” — Jean Giraudoux

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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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“English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.” — Germaine Greer

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“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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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 ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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