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I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men—at least they can cry.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years, and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. A nation that neglects either of these forces perishes. They must be steered together, like a pair of carriage horses.

All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Luigi Pirandello

… [Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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

George Berkeley

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Catharine MacKinnon

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglass

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.