Quotes with men-versus-women

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  • Camille Paglia For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Cliff Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Francis Bacon For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bertrand Russell For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Christina Rossetti For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bipasha Basu For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht For the task assigned them
    Men aren't smart enough or sly
    Any rogue can blind them
    With a clever lie.
    The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • John F. Kennedy For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Audre Lorde For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ella Higginson Forgive you? - Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.
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  • Euripides Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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