Quotes with men-versus-women

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 2712.

  • Amelia Earhart Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Allen Tate Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Albert Camus Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Johnson Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Angela Carter Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Gloria Steinem Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James F. Byrnes Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Bev Perdue President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Walt Whitman Produce great men, the rest follows.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ben Hecht Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Ogden Nash Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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