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Man Quotes



"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."



"Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?"


"It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting."
Man,


"I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me."


"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."


"We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body."


"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"


"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."



"If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."


"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."


"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."
Man,


"Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from."


"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."


"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."


"In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading."


"For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things."


"If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder."



"We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends."


"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later."


"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men."


"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."



"As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night."


"It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man."


"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."



"Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort."


"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."


"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases."


"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."


"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."


"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."
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