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- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to…
- No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human…
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will…
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in…
- Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that…
- A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
- To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have…
- There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into…
- A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
- It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it…
- The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever…
- When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his…
- It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral…
- Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is…
- Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
- Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
- Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own…
- A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
- Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness…
- On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but…
- The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;…
- Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed…
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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
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle