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Man Quotes


"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious."



"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."


"You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring."


"So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training."


"You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up."


"The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him."


"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment."



"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."



"Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse."


"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last."


"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."


"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men."



"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."


"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."


"One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case."



"And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women."


"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."


"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."



"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."


"Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy."



"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."


"The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant."


"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."


"Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended."


"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."


"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."


"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."


"Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there."


"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."



"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod."
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