#sm

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#men

['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia ↗

— Eric C. Wat

#lgbt #racism #men

Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both. ↗

— C.J. Hill

#laws #promises #smart-people #men

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#pride #self-assuredness #truism #men

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#men

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexism #women #men

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time. ↗

— Sheila Heti

#smile #men

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#topography #woman #woodsman #men

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#liberation #non-violence #oppression #radical #violence

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#men