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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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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.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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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.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
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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.
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For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.Source: The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All -
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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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.
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For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
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Freedom is baffling:
men having it often
know not they have it
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Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
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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.
Source: The Playboy Interview
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