Quotes
Quotes about Men
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word. - Thomas Haynes Bayly,
A good name is better than precious ointment.
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
