top of page
"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
Explore more quotes by Agnes Smedley

"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."

"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."

"Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!"

"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."

"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."

"More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international."

"And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help."
bottom of page