— Francois de La Rochefoucauld"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."
Philosophy Quotes
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— Ambrose Bierce"Dawn: When men of reason go to bed."
— Victor Hugo"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself."
— Alice Walker"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
— Blaise Pascal"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
— Marcus Aurelius"Men exist for the sake of one another."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."
— Sigmund Freud"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
— Ayn Rand"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."
— Bill Cosby"I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior."
— Marilyn Monroe"The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'"
— Thomas Jefferson"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
— George Bernard Shaw"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
— Friedrich Nietzsche"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
— Julie Burchill"Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise."
— Jenny Eclair"I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation."
— Tori Amos"I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen."
— Elizabeth Edwards"I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way."
— Hillary Clinton"Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?"
— Barack Obama"I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution."