#om

Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#grotesque #molestation #beauty

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. ↗

— Homer

#greek #homer #iliad #patroclus #priam

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. ↗

— Barbara Streisand

#men #women #work #men

In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart. ↗

— Heidi Cullinan

#men

Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind. A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone’s opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or “welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is Galileo.) It is from the work and the inviolate integrity of such minds—from the intransigent innovators—that all of mankind’s knowledge and achievements have come. (See The Fountainhead.) It is to such minds that mankind owes its survival. (See Atlas Shrugged.) ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individual #rationality #attitude

He who is not generous(loving,benevolent),God is not generous(loving,benevolent) to him. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #benevolent #culture #freedom #generous

MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #the-dom-s-dungeon #men

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. ↗

— J. Courtney Sullivan

#ploy #women-s-liberation #men

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#men #pornography #sexism #sexualization #violence

Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies? ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#women-s-rights #men