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Man Quotes



"Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so."


"For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority."


"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."


"Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen."


"The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them."
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"Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment."


"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."


"The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved."



"No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane."


"The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around."


"Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research."



"Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous."


"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."



"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."


"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."


"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."


"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."



"All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men."


"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."


"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."


"Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation."


"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."



"I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man."


"In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics."



"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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