Quotes with men-intellectuals

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 2161.

  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Cat Stevens There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • George Herbert There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Boz Scaggs There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Betty Williams There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • W. H. Auden There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ben Jonson There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
    Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Drummond Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Thomas Paine These are the times that try men's souls.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • C. Wright Mills These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • William Shakespeare They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
    Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Daniel Webster This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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