Decision Quote by Paulo Freire

Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very…

— Jean Kilbourne

The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.

— Rollo May

“Violent men, and men in authority over violent men, and the broader public that authorises those men, are not yet shamed by the harm…

— Lee Lakeman

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether…

— Roger Williams

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

— Sheila Jeffreys

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

— Theodore Dalrymple

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a…

— Wallace Stegner

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them

— Epictetus

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to…

— Isaiah Berlin

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are…

— Alexis De Tocqueville