Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 2161.

  • Camille Paglia Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Plato States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Richard Bach Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Andrew William Mellon Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • William Goldman Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Harry S. Truman Study men, not historians.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Conrad Hilton Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
    Conrad Hilton
    American businessman and founder of the Hilton hotels (1887 - 1979)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Thomas Hobbes Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • John Gay Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Richard Nixon Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the principles of modern salesmanship on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Caitlin Moran Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Horace Mann Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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