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Men Quotes by Toni Morrison
- There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
- Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the…
- An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul…
- Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to…
- The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do…
- Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
- A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody
- And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
- When a man angers you, he conquers you.
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
- She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all…
- I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head…
- Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets…
- A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.
- But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight…
- Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well,…
- Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but…
- I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I…
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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