Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2161.

  • Adlai Stevenson II Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • John Milton No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • John Milton No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Camille Paglia No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Riley No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Auguste Rodin Nobody does good to men with impunity.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Barbara Deming Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Ronald Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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