Quotes with anti-man

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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Albert Pike The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Machiavelli The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Jay Chapman The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Picabia The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Huey Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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