Man Quotes
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy LamarrHedy Lamarr In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules VerneJules Verne Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
Karl MarxKarl Marx Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MaimonidesMaimonides Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl WarrenEarl Warren The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
PlutarchPlutarch Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
Dick GregoryDick Gregory