Sex Quotes

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Margaret Thatcher

Erich Fromm

James Baldwin

John Desmond Bernal

William J. Brennan, Jr.

William Cobbett

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Margaret Thatcher

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Grace Metalious

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. Stanley Hall

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

William Cobbett

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Amoebas at the start
Were not complex;
They tore themselves apart and started Sex.

Arthur Guiterman

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If, while I hear the shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth for the dumb, am I not guilty? Or should I go from house to house to do it, when I could tell so many more in less time, if they should be gathered in one place? You would not object or think it wrong, for a man to plead the cause of the suffering and the outcast; and surely the moral character of the act is not changed because it is done by a woman. I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. I only ask that you will not withhold your consent from my doing anything that I think is my duty to do.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it's sex.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Anthony Burgess

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.