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Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves ↗

— Sherry Argov

#love

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#religion #men

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#ethics #science #men

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#spiritual #men

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#politics #revenge #men

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? What makes them think they can boast of the same thing that in women brings only shame? ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#false-hope #reality #sense-of-security #truth #men

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#ideas #men

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#blaise #pascal #philosophy #religion #men

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#progress #technology #men