Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who's going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
American men are like women.
When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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 up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
Every guy's got to own a watch. I'm a watch guy. Men don't get to wear jewelry, really, and that's the one item that we can make our own and personalize our stuff with.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Not every woman goes to sporting events to find men, but 2-3 percent of women do.
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
