Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Andrea Dworkin 'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Carol Gilligan ... while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Paine A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Francoise Sagan A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Gloria Steinem A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell A few honest men are better than numbers.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Oswald Chambers A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Julie Burchill A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Walt Whitman A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • John Selden A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Darius Ogden Mills A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.
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