Men Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

— Pearl S. Buck

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place

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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

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The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of…

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nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much…

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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good…

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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood…

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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be…

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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

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For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly…

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The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he…

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The highest civilizations -- the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms -- are those which have…

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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will…

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Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot…

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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in…

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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books…

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A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh,…

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I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their…

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A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the…

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For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can…

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The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.…

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What the common man cannot understand he hates.

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What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and…

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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize…

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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a…

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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

— Pearl S. Buck

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that…

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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without…

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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given…

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though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it…

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