Quotes with men-versus-women

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  • Oscar Wilde Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Casey Wilson Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Benjamin Rush Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
    Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government[2]
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: Men had to be supermen: stoic, responsible meal tickets. Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Benjamin Koldyke From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Salman Rushdie From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
    The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Aldous Huxley From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Algernon Sidney Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • William Hazlitt Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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