Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Benjamin Rush Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
    Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government[2]
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: Men had to be supermen: stoic, responsible meal tickets. Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Salman Rushdie From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
    The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Aldous Huxley From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Algernon Sidney Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Marquis de Sade Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Ovid Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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