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Men Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
- I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If…
- The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was…
- Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are…
- Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we…
- All men & women are created equal
- Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
- A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will…
- All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage…
- So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
- It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
- No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must…
- Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.
- The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem…
- What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than…
- We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the…
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
- Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for…
- There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than…
- It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite…
- When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man,…
- Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order,…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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