Quotes about Male

Friar, Philosopher, Priest, Theologian

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

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Alan Watts

Philosopher

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Essence - Female - Fidelity - Loss - Male

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

Disgust - Male - Pathological - State

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.

Eternity - Faith - Female - Human - Inspiration - Male - Man - Mystery - Whole

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

Father - Male - Real - Remembering - Thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Heroism - Male - Man

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

Female - Human - Male - Meaning - Transformation - Unions

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.

Enjoying - Male - Vigor

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Citizenry - Male - Whole

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Gloria Steinem

Journalist, Social Activist

Male silence is not the same as listening

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

Creating - Male

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Aristotle

Philosopher

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

Animals - Female - Kindness - Male - Proof - Worth

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Gloria Steinem

Journalist, Social Activist

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

Knowledge - Male - Speaking

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Femininity - Making - Male

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Human - Knowledge - Male - Man - Providing

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Rudyard Kipling

Writer, Journalist, Poet

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

Accuracy - Fools - Making - Male - Man - Management

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Constitution - Having - Male - Right - Voting - Writing

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Fiction - Inherent - Male - Man - Mother - Motivation - People - Purpose - Sci-Fi - Teaching - Universe - Woman

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Aristotle

Philosopher

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Female - Inferiority - Male - Mankind - Negative - Woman

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