Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Fuller Poor men's reasons are not heard.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Bell Hooks Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
    Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Virginia Woolf The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William H. Borah The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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  • Denis Diderot The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Simone Weil The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Epicurus There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Brackett Reed To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Simone Weil When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Fuller Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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