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Man Quotes by Doris Lessing
- When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief…
- Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
- It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.…
- Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they…
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to…
- For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
- A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is…
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle