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Men Quotes by Germaine Greer
- Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
- There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women…
- Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw…
- Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What…
- I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men…
- Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
- I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt…
- The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
- Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in…
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by…
- Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they…
- The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
- At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as…
- There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
- The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it…
- English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
- All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
- Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
- Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
- Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
- Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
- The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
- It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't…
- The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize…
- Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
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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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- 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
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle