"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Maciver, Robert M. on women
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"The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."

Ammianus, Marcellinus on language
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates on teacher
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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

Socrates on politics
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"How many are the things I can do without!"

Socrates on possessions
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

Socrates on government
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think."

Socrates on joy
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man."

Meir, Golda on women
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Meir, Golda on women
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"Don't be humble, you're not that great."

Meir, Golda on humility
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."

Socrates on thoughts and thinking
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"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people."

Ringer, Robert J. on inflation
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"Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity -- an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women."

Morgan, Robin on catholicism   

"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."

Huxley, Aldous on religion
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"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

Hoffer, Eric on religion
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."

Butler, Samuel on christians and christianity   

"Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance."

Hubbard, Elbert on religion   

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates on wisdom
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"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."

O'Casey, Sean on religion   

"A cult is a religion with no political power."

Wolfe, Thomas on cult   

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

Feibleman, James on myth   

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

Shaw, George Bernard on religion   

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

Bierce, Ambrose on religion
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"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."

Dworkin, Andrea on language   

"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact."

Dworkin, Andrea on gossip   

"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."

Dworkin, Andrea on feminism   

"Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not."

Dworkin, Andrea on feminism
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"By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't."

Dworkin, Andrea on fear   

"Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women."

Dworkin, Andrea on fashion
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"Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized."

Dworkin, Andrea on dissent   

"Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name."

Dworkin, Andrea on definition   

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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