“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.”
“Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.”
“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.”
“Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.”
“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.”
“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”
“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.”
“Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
“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.”
“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.”
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
“Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.”
“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”
“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.”
“Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
“Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?”