men

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

John Ruskin

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30 November 2019

men

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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30 November 2019

men

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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30 November 2019

men

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Walter Lippmann

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30 November 2019

men

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

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30 November 2019

men

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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30 November 2019

men

The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

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30 November 2019

men

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Alexander Pope

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30 November 2019

men

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Jimmy Carter

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30 November 2019

men

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Pound

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30 November 2019

men

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Edwin Louis Cole

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30 November 2019

men

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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30 November 2019

men

Study men, not historians.

Harry S. Truman

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30 November 2019

men

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Susan B. Anthony

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30 November 2019

men

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Francis Bacon

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30 November 2019

men

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

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30 November 2019

men

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

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30 November 2019

men

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

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30 November 2019

men

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

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30 November 2019

men

Strong women only marry weak men.

Bette Davis

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30 November 2019