Eve Ensler Quotes

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

Eve Ensler

• Hearts
• Tyranny
• Masculinity
• Silenced

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• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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  • Vote
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• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
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  • Hearts

• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hearts

• For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Work
  • Love
  • Hearts

• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Constitution
  • Silenced

• I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.

  

  Fae Myenne Ng
  • Believe
  • Hearts
  • Secrets

• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Fish

• Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Caught

• Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

  

  Plato
  • Reality
  • Hearts
  • Philosophers

• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Healthy
  • Nation
  • Tyranny

• When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hearts
  • Realized
  • Sincerity

• God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Marriages

• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Kings
  • Tyranny

• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Break
  • Hearts

• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • According

• We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free

  

  Max Cavalera Cavalera Conspiracy
  • God
  • Soul
  • Night

• Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eating
  • France
  • Meat

• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Learned
  • Laugh
  • Regarding

• What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message.

  

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
  • Voice
  • Message
  • Aggressive

• Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Hearts
  • Tyranny
  • Masculinity