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Men Quotes by Nawal El Saadawi
- Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people…
- Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy…
- All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and…
- Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,…
- I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
- Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession…
- Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to…
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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